Strip the Cosmos - Season 1 - Eps 3: Killer Asteroids
Asteroids are constantly threatening Earth, with thousands lurking too close to our planet for comfort. We travel to Arizona to meet the team who spend every night scanning the heavens for asteroids that could threaten earth, and reveal how scientists test an intense laser beam they hope could one day deflect an asteroid away from Earth. But is there more to these deadly space rocks than the next Armageddon? At NASA we see astronauts train in weightless conditions for the first manned mission to an asteroid, and discover how asteroids could become cosmic gas stations ...
About Strip the Cosmos
Title: Strip the Cosmos
First Air Date: 2014-11-12
Last Air Date: 2020-11-18
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 7 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 4
Total Episodes: 30
Network: Science
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Windfall Films
Synopsis
This series reveals worlds never seen before; stunning CGI animation peels back the layers, revealing alien landscapes of fragile lava caves, roiling plasma seas, cosmic platinum mines, and the hungry black hole at the center of our galaxy – cosmological wonders that play a surprising role defining our place in the universe.
