Tunguska: One Blast. 80 Million Trees. No Crater.

Episodes

1. 01 Episode 1: The Morning the Sky Split in Two Free1:30 A quiet Siberian morning becomes an inferno when the northern sky tears open above a trading station.
2. 02 Episode 2: The Herders Thrown From Their Tents Locked1:32 Closer to the explosion, sleeping families, camps and reindeer herds absorb the blast at terrifying range.
3. 03 Episode 3: The Fire Brighter Than the Sun Locked1:31 The blast announces its scale through burned skin, broken windows, distant instruments and a towering column of smoke.
4. 04 Episode 4: The Trees That Died Standing Up Locked1:35 Tunguska leaves a bizarre signature: a burned central forest surrounded by millions of trees pointing away from the sky.
5. 05 Episode 5: The Expedition That Couldn’t Reach the Blast Locked1:27 Leonid Kulik begins the hunt for Tunguska's impact site, only to be defeated by the landscape itself.
6. 06 Episode 6: The Burned Forest Still Standing Locked1:17 Nineteen years after Tunguska, Kulik reaches its center and begins searching for the object that caused it.
7. 07 Episode 7: The 830-Square-Mile Butterfly Locked1:35 Later surveys confirm Kulik's failure but uncover a destruction pattern shaped like a gigantic butterfly.
8. 08 Episode 8: The Comet Nobody Could Find Locked1:52 The absence of a crater turns Tunguska into a battle between an icy comet, a stony asteroid and increasingly fantastic alternatives.
9. 09 Episode 9: The Plume That Climbed 100 Kilometers Locked1:42 Airburst models reconstruct an object vaporizing high above Siberia and sending its aftermath toward Europe.
10. 12 Episode 12: The Blast Heard by Machines in Europe Locked1:55 Researchers interrogate Tunguska's surviving seismic and infrasound traces to constrain an explosion witnessed mostly through stories.
11. 13 Episode 13: The Disaster That Returns Every 2,000 Years Locked1:55 Tunguska changes from a historical anomaly into a recurring planetary risk measured in millennia.
12. 14 Episode 14: The 20-Megaton Rock Only 70 Meters Wide Locked1:35 Scientists translate Tunguska's forest damage into the shock, heat and urban danger posed by a surprisingly small asteroid.
13. 15 Episode 15: The Crater That Never Existed Locked1:33 The absence that created the Tunguska mystery becomes the clue that finally resolves it—and a warning for the future.

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