15 November 2016. The French astronaut Thomas Pesquet took off from Baikonur for his first space mission. This documentary brings to life the intense year spent preparing physically, psychologically and scientifically before his departure for the International Space Station. The aim: to survive six months in orbit around Earth.

Thomas Pesquet - profession astronaute

With their rounded caps, some ten thousand phallic stelae dot the highlands of Sidamo and Gedeo country in southern Ethiopia, covering an area of 10,000 square kilometers. Discovered less than a century ago by a handful of explorers, these gigantic megaliths have been little studied, unlike the anthropomorphic stelae, whose research has revealed their funerary character. A team of scientists led by Roger Joussaume, a French specialist in megalithism, is carrying out an excavation campaign on the numerous archaeological sites in the region. They are attempting to date and understand this heritage, abandoned in its current state by a civilization that is still little known.

Ethiopie, le mystère des mégalithes

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman province in Southern Gaul - Gallia Narbonensis. It was the second most important Roman port in the western Mediterranean and the town was one of the most important commercial hubs between the colonies and the Roman Empire, thus the town could boast a size rivaling that of the city that had established it: Rome itself. Paradoxically, the town that distinguished itself for its impressive architecture, today shows no more signs of it: neither temples, arenas, nor theaters. Far less significant Roman towns like Nîmes or Arles are full of ancient sites. Narbonne today is a tranquil town in Occitania

Narbonne: The Second Rome

Perseverance is the latest astromobile designed by NASA to explore Mars. A marvel of technology that should contribute to the preparation of a future manned mission to the Red Planet.