National Geographic Earth Investigated: Deep Space Probes (2007)

A powerful series that gives real answers to some of the most provocative questions facing mankind today. Using carefully-researched CGI reconstructions and expert contributions, this program examines major events and phenomena. Planet Science goes on journey through the Solar System and beyond, examining some of the most extreme characteristics of our planetary neighbours. Comets, distant travellers from the outer parts of our solar system, have long been shrouded in mystery. Now, through Earth-based observations and space probes, their origins and nature are unveiled.

The Alien Deep. It's a place in the sea, thousands of feet beneath the surface, far from the first crack of light, where the planet's last and greatest secrets hide in the cold darkness of endless night. With cutting edge tools and amazing new camera technologies, National Geographic embarks on a first-ever voyage of deep ocean exploration – thousands of feet beneath the waves – to a hidden world of new ecosystems, new species, and new wonders never seen before.

Whether it's a romantic getaway to the breathtaking canyons of Mars or the ultimate vacation in Jupiter's magnetic field, National Geographic Channel brings you the ultimate in adventure travel, but it is not for the faint-hearted. Today's super space traveller must endure drastic climates that shift from 450 degrees celsius in the sun to minus 170 celsius in the shade, crushing gravity, acid smog, and blistering radiation. From Jupiter's churning red eye to Saturn's glittering rings, the sights are out of this world. Blast-off with A Traveller's Guide to The Planets, the ultimate travel guide to the Solar System.

Witness the earth’s greatest wildlife, shot by the world’s greatest wildlife cinematographers, in a spectacular 2-hour broadcast on National Geographic. Hosted by award-winning actress Jane Lynch and award-winning television personality Phil Keoghan, Earth Live will give viewers access to key locations across six continents from South America to Asia and everywhere in between as world-renowned cinematographers use cutting-edge technology to showcase a number of wildlife firsts. And, for the first time, viewers will watch live wildlife lit only by the moon, in full color, via new low-light camera technology.

As new parents can attest, children develop so much in the first year of their life it's hard to keep up. From the moment they draw their initial breath - itself an incredibly complicated biological feat - to their first steps, it's a year of remarkable development.

National Geographic's documentary series EXPLORER returns with breakthrough stories designed to magnify curiosity, innovation, news and information.

Four bodies, a scattering of clues, a mystery whose solution could force us to rewrite history. National Geographic opens an ancient case of missing persons, trying to determine the origins of a group of enigmatic mummies found in western China. What they find out may change what we know about the world.