What on Earth?

S01E03: Secrets 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?

Overview

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?

Episodes

Lake of Blood

S01E01 Lake of Blood

February 10, 2015 6.0 44 min
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.
Lost City of Gold

S01E02 Lost City of Gold

February 17, 2015 6.0 44 min
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...
Secrets of the Sahara

S01E03 Secrets of the Sahara

February 24, 2015 6.0 44 min
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...
Finding Sodom

S01E04 Finding Sodom

March 3, 2015 6.0 44 min
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...
North Korea is Burning

S01E05 North Korea is Burning

March 10, 2015 6.0 44 min
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...
Nazi Ice Fortress

S01E06 Nazi Ice Fortress

March 17, 2015 6.0 44 min
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?

Cast

Steven Kearney
Narrator
Andrew Gough
Andrew Gough
Self

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