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Aurelia and Blue Moon

Extraterrestrial
Also known as 'Alien Worlds
Extraterrestrial - Alien Worlds'
Genre Astrobiology documentary
Directed by Nick Stringer
Presented by Armand Leroi (UK)
Starring Simon Conway Morris
Chris McKay
Seth Shostak
Nigel Franks
Jim Usherwood
Narrated by Armand Leroi (UK)
Michael Dorn (US)
Composer(s) The Fratelli Brothers
Country of origin United Kingdom
United States
Original language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 2
Production
Executive producer(s) Sarah Cunliffe
Producer(s) Nick Stringer
Running time 2 hours with commercials
100 minutes without commercials
Production company(s) Big Wave Productions Ltd.
Release
Original network Channel 4 (UK)
National Geographic Channel (US)
Original release January, 2005 (UK)
May 30, 2005 (US)
External links
Official website (archived link) web.archive.org/web/20080725225706/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com:80/channel/extraterrestrial/ax/main_fs.html
Production
website
www.bigwavetv.com/productions/alien-worlds/

Extraterrestrial (also Alien Worlds in the UK) is a British-American two-part television documentary miniseries, aired in 2005 in the UK by Channel 4, by the National Geographic Channel (as Extraterrestrial) in the US on Monday, May 30, 2005 and produced by Blue Wave Productions Ltd. The program focuses on the hypothetical and scientifically feasible evolution of alien life on extrasolar planets, providing model examples of two different fictional worlds, one in each of the series's two episodes.

The documentary is based on speculative collaboration of a group of American and British scientists, who were collectively commissioned by National Geographic. For the purposes of the documentary, the team of scientists divides two hypothetical examples of realistic worlds on which extraterrestrial life could evolve: A tidally locked planet orbiting a red dwarf star (dubbed "Aurelia") and a large moon (dubbed "Blue Moon") orbiting a gas giant in a binary star system. The scientific team of the series used a combination of accretion theory, climatology, and xenobiology to imagine the most likely locations for extraterrestrial life and most probable evolutionary path such life would take.

The "Aurelia" and "Blue Moon" concepts seen in the series were also featured in the touring exhibition The Science of Aliens.

The show's concept shares basic similarities with The Future is Wild. Both series depict imaginary but scientifically-plausible ecosystems and the species that inhabit them, with commentary by scientists. The key difference is that in The Future is Wild the ecosystems represent the possible future evolution of life on planet Earth, while in Extraterrestrial they are designed from scratch based on possible conditions on extrasolar planets.


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