Where To Stream NOVA Season 43 Episode 11
Life's Rocky Start
- Aired January 13, 2016
- 60 Min
- Rated 7.5
- Number 207 Of 294 Rated Episodes
Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place—a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerged. But how? NOVA joins mineralogist Robert Hazen as he journeys around the globe. From an ancient Moroccan market to the Australian Outback, he advances a startling and counterintuitive idea—that the rocks beneath our feet...