NOVA - Season 43 Episode 11 Life's Rocky Start
Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place—a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerged. But how? NOVA joins mineralogist Robert Hazen as he journeys around the globe. From an ancient Moroccan market to the Australian Outback, he advances a startling and counterintuitive idea—that the rocks beneath our feet were not only essential to jump-starting life, but that microbial life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we know and depend on today. It's a theory of the co-evolution of Earth and life that is reshaping the grand-narrative of our planet’s story.
First Air Date: Mar 03, 1974
Last Air date: Jan 29, 2025
Season: 52 Season
Episode: 998 Episode
Runtime: 55 minutes
IMDb: 6.90/10 by 118.00 users
Popularity: 116.614
Language: English
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