Name: Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Released: 2012-03-04T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Kate Humble, Helen Czerski

`Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey' explores the relationship between the Earth's orbit and the affects it has on the planet, including the weather and the tides. It's presented by adventurer Kate Humble and oceanography and physicist Dr Helen Czerski, who over three episodes follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit and report on the consequences it has on us all.

Documentary · 2012 · 58 min

Starring Kate Humble , Helen Czerski

EPISODE 1

The Pathway

In this first episode we travel from July to the December solstice. We experience spectacular weather and the largest tides on earth. To show how the earth's orbit affects our lives, Helen Czerski jumps out of an aeroplane and Kate Humble briefly becomes the fastest driver on earth.

58 min · 4 Mar 2012
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

In this second episode we travel from January to the March equinox. Kate Humble gets closer to the sun than she has ever been before, whilst Helen Czerski visits a place that gets some of the biggest and fastest snowstorms on earth.

59 min · 11 Mar 2012
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

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.

58 min · 18 Mar 2012