What on Earth?
Satellites orbit Earth at 17,000 miles an hour, capturing images of our world that are breathtaking, but some are bizarre. This unique perspective reveals objects that seem to make no sense & phenomena that defy explanation. Such images force the question, what on Earth is that?
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Season 1
6 episodes
Premiered Feb 10, 2015
Season 2
6 episodes
Premiered Jan 25, 2016
Season 3
20 episodes
Premiered Nov 15, 2016
Season 4
20 episodes
Premiered Oct 17, 2017
Season 5
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 8, 2019
Season 6
9 episodes
Premiered Jun 6, 2019
Season 7
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 9, 2020
Season 8
9 episodes
Premiered Aug 27, 2020
Season 9
10 episodes
Premiered Mar 11, 2021
Season 10
10 episodes
Premiered Oct 24, 2021
Season 11
10 episodes
Premiered Jun 22, 2022
Season 12
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 12, 2023
Ep 1Lake of Blood
A massive tsunami hundreds of feet high that never touches land; a secret underground base in China; an image from space may have revealed the location of the Garden of Eden.
Ep 2Lost City of Gold
Weird barren rings in the Namib Desert, an island the size of Manhattan that vanishes without trace and a lost city in the heart of the Amazonian jungle. What on Earth? Investigates six more mysteries captured from space.
Ep 3Secrets of the Sahara
First seen from space in 1965, the Eye of the Sahara is a beautiful 25 mile structure, but how it formed remains a mystery. And are extraordinary clouds emanating from an island in the Indian Ocean evidence of a terrifying new weather weapon?
Ep 4Finding Sodom
NASA astronaut Mike Barratt, describes photographing a strange ring in the ice on the world's oldest and most mysterious lake from the International Space Station. More rings on Lake Baikal have been seen since, they baffle scientists.
Ep 5North Korea is Burning
A possible smoke screen over North Korea worries military analysts while an amateur archaeologist makes an extraordinary discovery with the help of a satellite image; has this image revealed not one but two forgotten pyramids in Egypt?
Ep 6Nazi Ice Fortress
Images of earth from space reveal an intimate portrait of human activity. Cities glow bright while the wilderness remains dark. Why then is the Australian outback, lit up like a series of vast cities?
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