Ed Stafford: Into the Unknown sees Ed on a mission to investigate the planet's newest mysteries. With photographs of Earth from the International Space Station and spy satellites showing strange and unexplained markings in some some of the most remote and inaccessible places on the planet, Ed will set out to find the target, and solve the riddle. From investigating gigantic white lines popping up on satellite images in remote West Papua to a strange pattern of circular dots in the middle of the Danakil Desert, Each astonishing image captures something hard to classify, previously unseen or anomalous. Ed will call on all of his expertise in extreme terrain and climate to uncover the truth.