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Origins homepage
Photo: (galaxies) NASA/Hubble

Life's Little Essential
Photos: (waterfall, iceberg) © Peter Tyson; (Titan) © NASA, Voyager 2

A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Photos: (Tyson) © Harry Heliotis; (Europa, Titan, Webb telescope) © NASA/JPL; (Tyson pointing) © Delvinhair Productions; (planetarium) © D. Finnin/AMNH

How Did Life Begin?
Photos: (Knoll) Courtesy of Andy Knoll; (Darwin, Miller, bacteria) © Corbis Images; (Earth) NASA; (DNA) © WGBH/NOVA

Does Mars Have Life?
Photos: (McKay) NASA/ARC; (Mars crater, Mars globe, martian north pole, martian surface, Mars Polar Lander) NASA/JPL

Who Needs Galaxies?
Photos: (Faber) Courtesy of R. R. Jones, Hubble Deep Field team, NASA; (Sombrero, solar system, Andromeda, Milky Way, deep field) © NASA; (Keck) Courtesy of the Keck Observatory

Are We Alone?
Photos: (Tyson) © Daniel Deitch; (Ward) © WGBH/NOVA (Jupiter, Earth) © NASA; (chimpanzee) Courtesy of UNWF; (flatworm) © Corbis Images; (coral) Courtesy of NOAA

Do Aliens Exist in the Milky Way?
Photos: (Earth, Milky Way, meteorite, space ship, Mars vehicle, deep field, radio telescopes) © NASA; (Antarctica) © Liesl Clark for WGBH/NOVA; (chimpanzee) Courtesy of UNWF; (octopus) Courtesy of NOAA; (equation, alien) © WGBH/NOVA

The Drake Equation
(Drake, bacteria) Corbis Images; (Milky Way, star formation, Earth, telescopes, meteorite); © NASA; (star wobble) produced by the Cornell Theory Center based on research by Alex Wolszczan, Penn State; (dolphins) Courtesy of NOAA

Decoding Cosmic Spectra
Photos: (star, galaxy, nebula, planet) © NASA; graphics: © WGBH/NOVA

The Pillars of Creation
Courtesy of Jeff Hester

The Origins Game
(Shark Bay) © Malcolm Wallace, University of Melbourne; (Murchison meteor) © Martin Altmann; (Akilia) © Christopher Fedo; (gold) Courtesy of USGS; (snottites, Galapagos rift) © WGBH/NOVA; (Horn Antenna) © Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis; (CBI) © CBI/Caltech/NSF; (Keck) Courtesy of Keck Observatory; (Tagish Lake) Courtesy of University of Western Ontario and University of Calgary; (Barringer Crater) © NASA/LPI/David Roddy; (Kolyma) © NASA/Marshall; (Rio Tinto) Courtesy of Carol Stoker, NASA Ames Research Center; (trilobite) © James L. Amos/Corbis

History of the Universe
Images: (left to right, 1-5) From a simulation of the Formation of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure by Michael Norman, Brian O'Shea and Greg Bryan, Grand Challenge Cosmology Consortium (GC3), and visualized by Donna Cox, Stuart Levy, Robert Patterson, NCSA/UIUC; (left to right, 6,8,9,11) STScI/AURA/NASA; (left to right, 7) High Z; (left to right, 10,12) NOVA/NASA

A Brief History of Life
Images: (Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Jurassic, Cretaceous) © John Sibbick; (Permian, Triassic, Quaternary) © Douglas Henderson; (Tertiary) Courtesy of Department of Library Services, American Museum of Natural History

ET Gallery
(Coneheads) © Howard Jacqueline; (Day the Earth Stood Still) © John Springer Collection; (Star Trek) © Bettmann/Corbis; (Predator) © Sunset Boulevard; (Men in Black) © Columbia Pictures/ZUMA/Corbis; (all others) © Jerry Ohlinger


This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ESI-9814643. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

 

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(Earth is Born, How Life Began)

Alice Harper

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Written, Produced and Directed by
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(Back to the Beginning)

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Original MER Animation
Animation by Dan Maas, Maas Digital LLC
© 2002 Cornell University All rights reserved.
This work was performed for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, sponsored by the United States Government under Prime Contract #NAS7-1407 between the California Institute of Technology and NASA. Copyright and other rights in the design drawings of the Mars Exploration Rover are held by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Use of the MER design has been provided to Cornell courtesy of NASA, JPL, and Caltech.

A Pioneer Film & TV production for NOVA/WGBH and Channel 4.
(Earth is Born, How Life Began)

A Thomas Levenson Productions and Unicorn Projects, Inc. production for WGBH/Boston.

The Day the Earth was Born, Creation © Channel Four Television Corporation MMII

Origins, Earth is Born © 2004 WGBH Educational Foundation

Origins, How Life Began © 2004 WGBH Educational Foundation

Origins, Where are the Aliens? © 2004 WGBH Educational Foundation

Origins, Back to the Beginning © 2004 WGBH Educational Foundation

All rights reserved

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9814643. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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