Jan 13, 2016
54 min
Full-HD

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start (2016)

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...

Jay O. Sanders

Narrator (voice)

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