Breakthrough
Season 1 Episode 2 - Asteroid Belt/Opportunity Rover
A NASA mission reveals surprising discoveries about the Asteroid Belt.
Audio Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Starring:Joi Shilling
Directed by:Curiosity Stream
Season 1
S01:E01 - Touching the Sun/Exoplanets
NASA's Parker Probe Plus is on a mission to understand our Sun.
S01:E02 - Asteroid Belt/Opportunity Rover
A NASA mission reveals surprising discoveries about the Asteroid Belt.
S01:E03 - Coronavirus: Part 1
Learn more about COVID-19 and early developments on the Coronavirus vaccine.
S01:E04 - Direct From Asteroid / Gravitational Waves
See the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's journey to collect samples from an asteroid.
S01:E05 - Private Moonshot/Asteroid Hunter
A look into a non-profit's attempt to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the Moon.
S01:E06 - Saturn: Moon King/Black Hole
Space technology reveals new wonders about Saturn's moons and our solar system.
S01:E07 - Marsquakes/Human Link
The Mars Insight Lander drills into Martian soil, looking for earthquakes.
S01:E08 - Rewinding Time/West Is Burning
The United States' western forests are catching fire - why, and what can we do about it?
S01:E09 - CRISPR/Killer Asteroid
Explore gene editing, how it works, and what it can do.
S01:E10 - Zealandia/Extinction
Geologists believe they've uncovered a massive eighth continent.
S01:E11 - Alzheimer's / Spider Silk
For scientists, reversing Alzheimer's' disease is a major research goal.
S01:E12 - Ark for Humans/Rip Currents
Scientists store vanishing microbes in a "vault" to preserve them for our future.
S01:E13 - Greenland Melting/Miami Underwater
The critical Greenland ice sheet is melting, and scientists are seeking ways to preserve it.
S01:E14 - Making Babies / Dog's Nose
How close are we to rendering infertility a thing of the past?
S01:E15 - Space Junk/Tasmanian Tigers
Understand the growing dangers from 900,000 pieces of man-made "Space Junk."
S01:E16 - Longest Vertebrate/Climate Crisis
The Greenland Shark is Earth's longest-living vertebrate, but what is it, exactly?
S01:E17 - Asteroid Explosion/Peru Cloud Warriors
Spacecraft Hayabusa 2 explodes an asteroid in the name of science.
S01:E18 - Mars InSight/T-Rex Timeline
See the critical moments when the Mars Insight vehicle touches down on the Red Planet.
S01:E19 - Coronavirus: Part 2
Experts explore the COVID-19 pandemic and how to live amidst a deadly virus outbreak.
S01:E20 - Homo Naledi / Egypt's Lost City
Findings of small-skulled fossils uncover more about when and how ancient beings lived.
S01:E21 - Kuiper Belt Target/Shark Family Tree
Explore The New Horizons spacecraft as it approached Ultima Thule.
S01:E22 - Fixing Broken Heart/Drones in Space
Meet those inventing the future of cardiac health, from new ways of imaging to 3D printing.
S01:E23 - Cassini: Grand Finale/Icarus
Explore the significance of the Cassini spacecraft's findings as it bids farewell.
S01:E24 - Wildfire Combat/Saber-Tooth Brawl/Mars Perseverance
New technology hopes to curb wildfires; New fossil evidence is shining a light on Saber-Tooth cats.
S01:E25 - Saber-Tooth/Raising Dinos/Sun's Lost Planet
Fossils are shining a light on the violent lives of Saber-tooth cats.
S01:E26 - Best Dino Fossil/Megalodon/Without Water
Discover species that roamed during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
S01:E28 - Saving Right Whale/Flight of the Dragon
The North Atlantic Right Whale is on the verge of extinction from ship strikes and fishing lines.
S01:E29 - U-455/T-Rex/Tokyo/Fire Ants/Underwater Forest
A WWII wreck is found in Italy; Can chicken embryos be altered?; Tokyo's fraught future on the fault line.
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