Season 5: 2010

No. in series No. in season Title Original air date

1 "7 Wonders of the Solar System" July 292010
A close up look at some of the most astonishing wonders of our solar systemsuch as the geysers of Enceladusÿ Saturn s amazing ringsÿ Jupiter s Great Red Spotÿ and the heights of Olympus Mons on Mars.

2 "Mars: The New Evidence" August 52010
A look for evidence of life on Mars which provides many clues that it nowor once had supported itÿ from the remains of lakes and rivers that once flowed on the surfaceÿ to the water ice frozen at the polesÿ to the seasonal changes in methane gases that may prove bacterial life still thrives underground.

3 "Magnetic Storm" August 122010
A look at magnetic storms – "Solar Katrinas" created by the sun with the power of ten-thousand nuclear weapons that could cause global electrical blackoutselectronics malfunctions and communication disasters if one should hit the Earth.

4 "Time Travel" August 192010
A look at time travelÿ how it could one day become realityÿ how Einstein s theory of relativity claims it is possibleand the probable results of traveling to the future and the mind-boggling consequences of traveling to the past.

5 "Secrets of the Space Probes" August 262010
A look at space probeswhat they have done and found for us in spaceand what they might do in the futuresuch as searching for Earth-like planets and for extraterrestrial life.

6 "Asteroid Attack" September 22010
A look at asteroids and the impact they have or had on life now and before. Alsowhat spacecrafts can tell usÿ themwhat they can do to civilizationand the possibility of living on one.

7 "Total Eclipse" September 162010
A look at the movements of the Earththe sun and the moon during solar and lunar eclipsesÿ how humanseven if not alone in the universemay nevertheless be the only intelligent creatures to witness solar eclipsesÿ and how astronomers discover planets in other star systems that partially eclipse or transit their stars.

8 "Dark Future of the Sun" September 23,2010
A look at the future of the Sun and what might happen to it in five billion years when it uses up its hydrogen fuel and swells into a massive red giant star (consuming our planet and killing all life — including humans if any are still on it) and then shrinking into a white dwarf.ÿ