Xploration Awesome Planet

2 seasons available

Geologists visit the program and share knowledge of spectacular places on, within and above Earth.
Planet Rescue
S3 E6

People helping the planet; Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation; Trilogy Excursions do coral reef cleanups; Olympic National Park's temperate rainforests.

South Carolina
S3 E7

South Carolina: tagging tiger sharks; wild Venus fly traps; examining ecosystem indicators through three different species of crab; Congaree National Park.

Glacier National Park
S3 E8

Insect fossils dating back 45 million years; the geology of the park; wild huckleberries; citizen science expedition.

Insects
S3 E11

Researchers at the University of Texas look for ways to control invasive fire ant populations; ant societies; pollinators; mosquitoes.

Natural Disasters
S3 E12

Science helps people prepare for natural disasters: simulating a category 5 hurricane; avalanche safety; studying floods; designing buildings to hold up against earthquakes.

Nature's Classroom
S3 E13

Nature can sometimes be the best classroom; seagrass in Key Largo; aquatic insects; camera traps; an urban citizen science project.

Taking Flight
S3 E15

Catching and tagging bats in Congaree National Park; flight patterns of wood storks; the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly.

Earth in Motion
S2 E5

Mount Saint Helens; how mountains are formed and earthquakes caused; oceans and waterways in constant motion; how the planet speeds through the galaxy.

Canadian Rockies
S2 E6

The Canadian Rockies: Lake Louise; a glacier; the woodland caribou; white-bark pine trees; an archaeologist provides artifacts of people living in the area 10,000 years ago.

Earth's Views
S2 E7

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; satellites; flight in a DC-3 aircraft; an observatory where new stars are discovered; a spacewalk.

Alaska
S2 E8

Alaska: a brown bear hunting for salmon; Denali National Park; scuba diving in frigid waters; panning for gold.

Strange Planet
S2 E9

Petrified National Forest; Crater Lake; a giant forest of kelp off the Southern California coast; glowworms in New Zealand caves.

Time Machine
S2 E10

Grand Canyon; an ancient cave on the island of Curaçao; Lake Michigan; ice ages.

Marine Restoration
S2 E11

Lionfish near the coral reefs off Curaçao; oysters of the Chesapeake Bay; an oil spill's effects in Alaska; rebuilding the Louisiana wetlands.

Tides
S2 E12

Delaware Bay salt marsh; Pamlico Sound; tide pools in Hawaii; the Bore tide in Alaska.