Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. 　　Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the...

The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change. 　　This episode enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are ...

Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. 　　They have created a dazzling new set of super-telescopes that promise to rewrite the story of the heavens. 　　This film follows the men and women who are pushing the limits of science and engineering in some of the most ...

Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC that covers science and philosophy.

由眾多科學(xué)家和工程師研發(fā)接近30年的“卡西尼號(hào)”太空探測(cè)器在經(jīng)過(guò)長(zhǎng)達(dá)近7年的漫長(zhǎng)太空旅行之后，順利進(jìn)入環(huán)繞土星轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)的軌道，開始對(duì)土星大氣、光環(huán)和衛(wèi)星進(jìn)行歷時(shí)4年的科學(xué)考察。卡西尼號(hào)”還攜帶了探測(cè)土星最大衛(wèi)星土衛(wèi)六的探測(cè)器，取名為“惠更斯號(hào)”。在探測(cè)任務(wù)20年后，卡西尼號(hào)土星探測(cè)器燃料將盡，科學(xué)家控制其向土星墜毀，在此之后，卡西尼號(hào)與地球失去聯(lián)系，它進(jìn)入土星大氣層燃燒成為土星的一部分。在卡西尼號(hào)毀滅的最后一秒鐘，它都堅(jiān)守使命，往地球傳輸數(shù)據(jù)，最后才壯烈沖向大氣層。

一座金字塔中的發(fā)現(xiàn)讓考古學(xué)家開始尋找有關(guān)努比亞王國(guó)的線索。這不是普通的考古挖掘作業(yè)，因?yàn)檫@座金字塔被水淹沒了?？脊艑W(xué)家要首度潛入這座水底金字塔，讓我們更了解古老的努比亞王國(guó)。

This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and even planets in their final moments. 　　In this film, Horizon brings these predictions to life in a peaceful midwestern town th...