Venturing deep underground in the Cueva de Villa Luz (cave of the house of light) in Mexico, professor Brian Cox investigates the extremophilic bacteria that hang from the walls of the cave - the Hydogren Sulphide chemosynthesising Snottities.

If there is life on Mars, could it be similarly as primitive and hidden beneath the surface of the Red Planet as this bacteria?

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Wonders Of The Solar System
In this spellbinding series Professor Brian Cox visits the most extreme locations on Earth to explain how the laws of physics carved natural wonders across the solar system.

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