How the Solar System Was Made
From a collapsing cloud to a young Sun and a disk of forming planets, with meteorites preserving the chronology of the Solar System’s birth.
Full chapter 2 · 2 hr 4 min
How Earth Was Made
The complete second chapter follows the formation of the Solar System, the Moon-forming impact, the early Earth, and plate tectonics.
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This full-chapter edition brings together the films below. Open an episode for its research references, visual sources, and music credits.
30 min
How the Moon Was Made
What lunar samples and the Earth–Moon system reveal about the giant impact that most likely formed the Moon—and which details remain unsettled.
The Early Earth
How the early Earth cooled, developed a crust and oceans, and left fragments of its first 500 million years in ancient zircon crystals.
Plate Tectonics
How seafloor spreading, magnetic stripes, earthquakes, and subduction revealed a planet whose surface is continually rebuilt.
Compilation credits
Editorial assembly, explanatory animations, chapter titles, and transitions: From Cosmos to Civilization. Source records specific to the compilation opening are still being reviewed.
Music: Meditation From The Star Orion by OctahedronMusic, sourced through Envato Elements.
How this film was made
Created and editorially directed by Anders Lunde using a custom production system developed over six months. AI assists research, drafting, programming, and visual production; I review and edit the material and make the final editorial decisions. Narration uses text-to-speech. Visuals combine custom-built scientific animations, AI-generated reconstructions, and credited scientific imagery.
Generated reconstructions illustrate scientific interpretations. They are distinct from photographs, specimens, and measured data.
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