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Richard Hammond Builds...A PlanetBuilding a Planet

A look at the stunning CGI used and the contributors featured on the programme

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Richard needs a moon to create the conditions for life as we know it

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  • Richard needs a moon to create the conditions for life as we know it
  • Richard’s planet, still molten, has formed from a constant barrage of rock and dust
  • Richard Hammond builds his planet alongside a two-mile high construction tower in the Californian desert
  • Richard and Jeffrey Karson built a portable volcano in the Californian desert
  • A mile underground with a garden gnome that holds the key to gravitational attraction
  • Planets form through the clumping together of rock, dust and gas. Richard needs to do the same.
  • With a multitude of balloons, Richard demonstrates the Big Bang: an expanding bubble of space with no single point of origin
  • Richard Hammond at the top of his construction tower surrounded by dust and gas: ingredients he needs to build his planet
  • Richard with astronaut Harrison Schmitt, the only geologist to ever walk on the moon, and one of the moon rocks he collected
  • Richard at Barringer Crater, the scar left after a huge meteorite impact

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