In Photos: Wonders of the Solar System

Explore the different facets of our solar system with Professor Brian Cox.

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Erte Ale

Professor Brian Cox stands on the crater of a volcano called Erte Ale, in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
Wonders of the Solar System
Empire of the Sun

Professor Brian Cox witnessing the 2009 total solar eclipse in Varanasi, India.
The Thin Blue Line

Professor Brian Cox on the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska. This region carved by ice looks very similar to the landscape of Saturnís mysterious moon, Titan.
Dead or Alive

Professor Brian Cox on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona. The Grand Canyon could fit into one of the side channels of a vast canyon system on Mars, called the Valles Marineris
Order out of Chaos

Professor Brian Cox at Strokkur, Iceland. The geysir erupts every few minutes and soars upto 20m in the air. But it is a fraction of the size of vast ice fountains that erupt thousands of kilometres above Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
Aliens

Professor Brian Cox in Kverkfjoll ice cave under Vatnajokull glacier, Iceland. Even in these extreme conditions, bacterial life can be found and might be the kind of life that could exist below the ice on Jupiterís moon, Europa.

Erte Ale