COSMIC VISTAS SEASON 1 EP 1 TO 6 POSTAL2

From its highest mountains to its deepest oceans, our world had challenged the explorers of every generation to reach further and seek what lies beyond the far horizon. Century upon century, the lure of the unknown has taken humans to every corner of the globe and it has given us a view of Earth that our ancestors could barely have imagined.

Now, thanks to the invention of spaceflight, the drive to explore is leading us upward and outward - off of our own planet and out into the solar system where a host of alien worlds offers us vast new terrain to uncover. Today we see the sun, moon and planets with penetrating clarity - not through human eyes, but through the eyes of the intrepid machines that are blazing a trail for us across the solar system. Their cameras have become our windows onto a bold new adventure. Their vision has become our cosmic vista.

With this visually breathtaking new perspective on our solar system audiences will not only be taken to places they have never been, but they will get an immersive experience of places they could never go. The latest missions to the sun and planets are providing images so crisp and spectacular it is like peering through a clear window at another world. But make no mistake; these images are more than just pretty pictures of nature. The increasingly sophisticated and detailed views are shaping our understanding of who we are, where we came from and where we are going. The underlying message of the series is that we are a witnessing an unprecedented new age of exploration. We are finding a solar system of incredible diversity. Yet, within that diversity, we are realising the incredible uniqueness of life on Earth and gradually deciphering the story of how that life can emerge in a lifeless universe.