Synopsis
Dr Gabrielle Walker talks to Professor Michele Dougherty about the discovery of ice in space and how this could be a sign of extra-terrestrial life.
- Programme: The Secret Life of Ice
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2011
- Physics
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