Les mondes de glace documentary on France 5, Digi Mart USA News: France 5 will broadcast two new science documentaries on Thursday, November 26, 2026, as part of the Science grand format strand, with Mathieu Vidard presenting. The evening opens at 9:05 p.m.
with “Les mondes de glace” and continues at 9:55 p.m. with “Les mondes de l’obscurité.” Both episodes are described as premieres and will also be available on france.tv.
The first program, “Les mondes de glace,” is part of the series Mysteries of the Solar System. According to the source, more than forty spacecraft are currently exploring the solar system and returning images of unprecedented precision.
The documentary examines how ice takes unexpected forms beyond Earth.
The source says Europe, one of Jupiter’s moons, hides a vast ocean beneath an ice layer 10 to 25 kilometers thick. It also describes mountains of frozen water as hard as granite on Pluto, Saturn’s rings as countless ice crystals, and Uranus’s mantle as dense, hot, and black superionic ice.
According to scientists cited in the report, these phenomena could offer conditions favorable to the emergence of life.
The second episode, “Les mondes de l’obscurité,” turns to more distant regions between the stars and beyond the planets. It explores the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the Kuiper Belt, which the source describes as a vast, frozen, and very distant region first discovered in 1992.
The source also notes that in 2018 astronomers detected a dwarf planet nicknamed “FarFarOut,” described as the most distant object ever observed in the solar system. The episode closes by asking how far the solar system truly extends.
The program is produced by BBC Studios Science Unit with the participation of France Télévisions. The two episodes run about 50 minutes each.
The publisher article was not independently verified.
