Nat Geo provided me with an exclusive look at the latest trailer for One Strange Rock:
Creating One Strange Rock
According to Nat Geo, One Strange Rock will explore some very important, and deep philosophical questions about the origins, evolution, and potential future of our planet. The 10-part series will ask questions like “How special is Earth?” and “How has Earth survived so long?” and “Is there anyone else out there?”
As epic as the show seems, the effort and technology put into just making it is pretty awe-inspiring as well. Nat Geo has a reputation for beautiful and amazing photography and cinematography, and it seems like One Strange Rock will live up to—or possibly exceed that reputation. The One Strange Rock crew filmed more the 389 terabytes of footage—the equivalent of a 22-year movie marathon. They did 139 shoots, across 45 different countries, on six continents, plus the footage captured from outer space.
Nat Geo filmed a wide variety of extremes. They filmed an F15e Strike Eagle fighter jet trying to keep up with the shadow of the total solar eclipse, and filmed from space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) at 17.5 thousand miles per hour. They filmed in the Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad at more than 1,600 feet underground, and from ISS in orbit 230 to 286 miles above the Earth. They filmed in Kangiqsujuaq, Canada, at -45.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-43 degrees Celsius) and in Danakil depression, Ethiopia, at 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).
Astronaut Paolo Nespoli was trained by Darren Aronofsky ahead of his trip to the ISS and recorded exclusive footage for One Strange Rock during his mission. Nat Geo cameras were also the first ever allowed to film the Magha Puja festivities at Thailand’s Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple.
Through the Eyes of Astronauts
I expect the visuals of One Strange Rock to be mind-blowing. But the thing that will make the series truly valuable is the perspective of the eight astronauts who will serve as the principle storytellers. Chris Hadfield, Jeff Hoffman, Mae Jemison, Jerry Linenger, Mike Massimono, Leland Melvin, Nicole Stott, and Peggy Whitson each bring invaluable insight to the narrative—sharing their unique experiences and points of view, having witnessed the awe of our planet from outer space.
I had an opportunity to speak with Jerry Linenger. He was the first American ever to undock from a space station in a Russian Soyuz capsule and the first to do a spacewalk in a Russian spacesuit.
If someone pitched the story of Jerry’s perilous journey into space with you as a potential movie, your response might be something like, “Well, it all seems very exciting, but it’s a bit over the top and not very plausible. I mean, come on. Everything that could possibly go wrong—and even some things that couldn’t possibly go wrong—all went wrong. Tone it down a bit.”
He survived the most severe fire ever aboard an orbiting spacecraft, spent nearly five months on the Russian space station Mir and logged 50 million miles—equivalent to 110 trips around the Moon--on that mission alone. He faced numerous life-threatening events in addition to the fire, including repeated failure of critical life-support systems; a near-collision between the space station and an incoming re-supply spacecraft; and computer failures that sent the space station tumbling uncontrollably through space. You can learn more about that mission in Linenger’s book, “Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station MIR.”
Linenger told me that spending time in space gave him a different perspective on things and helped him realize how amazing the Earth is—and how the ecosystem and atmosphere buffer us from all kinds of potential catastrophes.
He said, “When you’re up there, you kind of get this feeling of ‘Wow! My existence is just miraculous.”
Partly as a result of his experience in space and the insight it provided, Linenger has continued to support projects and efforts that benefit the planet. He noted the beauty from outer space of seeing the rivers that encircle Earth, and how throughout human history civilization and commerce have always been established and evolved along the water.
Linenger is also careful to avoid either extreme in an environmental or ecological debate. Fresh water is a precious resource—far more important than oil will ever be, because the human race and most life on the planet simply can’t survive without it. At the same time, we have population growth, and manufacturing, and other things that occur as mankind adapts and evolves, and he stressed that we need to find ways to cooperate and collaborate to find an acceptable middle ground.
We can all experience that sort of awe on some level just by stopping and considering the world around us and the factors that helped create it—or could have destroyed it or our species at any point along the way, but there is no way for us to experience it on the level these astronauts have. As awesome as the Nat Geo imagery might be, and as inspiring as the astronauts might be as storytellers, the simple truth is that we can’t begin to understand the overwhelming grandeur of our planet the way they do.
That said, we can try. Linenger said that he has done other documentaries, but this one really does capture the awe of our planet and even got him thinking about some of these critical issues. One Strange Rock premieres March 26 on Nat Geo and I am looking forward to the epic breathtaking footage and tremendous insights it will share.
">“We’re all on it together.” That is the tagline for a new 10-part series from Nat Geo called “One Strange Rock”. The series, hosted by Will Smith, features awe inspiring footage of the beauty and raw power of planet Earth, combined with the unique perspective of eight people who have seen our planet from a vantage point very few ever will—outer space.
Nat Geo provided me with an exclusive look at the latest trailer for One Strange Rock:
Creating One Strange Rock
According to Nat Geo, One Strange Rock will explore some very important, and deep philosophical questions about the origins, evolution, and potential future of our planet. The 10-part series will ask questions like “How special is Earth?” and “How has Earth survived so long?” and “Is there anyone else out there?”
As epic as the show seems, the effort and technology put into just making it is pretty awe-inspiring as well. Nat Geo has a reputation for beautiful and amazing photography and cinematography, and it seems like One Strange Rock will live up to—or possibly exceed that reputation. The One Strange Rock crew filmed more the 389 terabytes of footage—the equivalent of a 22-year movie marathon. They did 139 shoots, across 45 different countries, on six continents, plus the footage captured from outer space.
Nat Geo filmed a wide variety of extremes. They filmed an F15e Strike Eagle fighter jet trying to keep up with the shadow of the total solar eclipse, and filmed from space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) at 17.5 thousand miles per hour. They filmed in the Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad at more than 1,600 feet underground, and from ISS in orbit 230 to 286 miles above the Earth. They filmed in Kangiqsujuaq, Canada, at -45.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-43 degrees Celsius) and in Danakil depression, Ethiopia, at 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).
Astronaut Paolo Nespoli was trained by Darren Aronofsky ahead of his trip to the ISS and recorded exclusive footage for One Strange Rock during his mission. Nat Geo cameras were also the first ever allowed to film the Magha Puja festivities at Thailand’s Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple.
Through the Eyes of Astronauts
I expect the visuals of One Strange Rock to be mind-blowing. But the thing that will make the series truly valuable is the perspective of the eight astronauts who will serve as the principle storytellers. Chris Hadfield, Jeff Hoffman, Mae Jemison, Jerry Linenger, Mike Massimono, Leland Melvin, Nicole Stott, and Peggy Whitson each bring invaluable insight to the narrative—sharing their unique experiences and points of view, having witnessed the awe of our planet from outer space.
I had an opportunity to speak with Jerry Linenger. He was the first American ever to undock from a space station in a Russian Soyuz capsule and the first to do a spacewalk in a Russian spacesuit.
If someone pitched the story of Jerry’s perilous journey into space with you as a potential movie, your response might be something like, “Well, it all seems very exciting, but it’s a bit over the top and not very plausible. I mean, come on. Everything that could possibly go wrong—and even some things that couldn’t possibly go wrong—all went wrong. Tone it down a bit.”
He survived the most severe fire ever aboard an orbiting spacecraft, spent nearly five months on the Russian space station Mir and logged 50 million miles—equivalent to 110 trips around the Moon--on that mission alone. He faced numerous life-threatening events in addition to the fire, including repeated failure of critical life-support systems; a near-collision between the space station and an incoming re-supply spacecraft; and computer failures that sent the space station tumbling uncontrollably through space. You can learn more about that mission in Linenger’s book, “Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station MIR.”
Linenger told me that spending time in space gave him a different perspective on things and helped him realize how amazing the Earth is—and how the ecosystem and atmosphere buffer us from all kinds of potential catastrophes.
He said, “When you’re up there, you kind of get this feeling of ‘Wow! My existence is just miraculous.”
Partly as a result of his experience in space and the insight it provided, Linenger has continued to support projects and efforts that benefit the planet. He noted the beauty from outer space of seeing the rivers that encircle Earth, and how throughout human history civilization and commerce have always been established and evolved along the water.
Linenger is also careful to avoid either extreme in an environmental or ecological debate. Fresh water is a precious resource—far more important than oil will ever be, because the human race and most life on the planet simply can’t survive without it. At the same time, we have population growth, and manufacturing, and other things that occur as mankind adapts and evolves, and he stressed that we need to find ways to cooperate and collaborate to find an acceptable middle ground.
We can all experience that sort of awe on some level just by stopping and considering the world around us and the factors that helped create it—or could have destroyed it or our species at any point along the way, but there is no way for us to experience it on the level these astronauts have. As awesome as the Nat Geo imagery might be, and as inspiring as the astronauts might be as storytellers, the simple truth is that we can’t begin to understand the overwhelming grandeur of our planet the way they do.
That said, we can try. Linenger said that he has done other documentaries, but this one really does capture the awe of our planet and even got him thinking about some of these critical issues. One Strange Rock premieres March 26 on Nat Geo and I am looking forward to the epic breathtaking footage and tremendous insights it will share.
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