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Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

Right now you're hurtling around the sun at 64,000 miles an hour (100,000 kms an hour). In the next year you'll travel 584 million miles, to end up back where you started. Presenters Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, to witness the astonishing consequences this journey has for us all.

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StatusEnded
Original NameOrbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
First Air DateMarch 4, 2012
Last Air DateMarch 18, 2012
Seasons1
Episodes3
Episode Runtime1h 0min
LanguageFrench
Original LanguageEnglish
Production CountriesUnited Kingdom
Production Companies
NetworksBBC Two
S01E03

Tilt

In this final episode we complete our journey, travelling back from the March equinox to the end of June. Kate Humble is in the Arctic at a place where spring arrives with a bang, whilst Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth's angle of tilt creates the most extreme weather on earth.

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