"Get to know the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, exoplanets, and more as a distinguished professor reveals the secrets of the solar system." -- Container.
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) digital optical stereo videodisc NTSC video file DVD video polychrome
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: NR
Notes:
Title from disc label 24 lectures (30 minutes each) "Course no. 9566"--Container Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) Lecturer: Professor Sabine Stanley, Johns Hopkins University DVD In English; closed-captioned
Contents:
Disc 1: How the solar system family is organized Mercury, the extreme little planet Venus, the veiled greenhouse planet Earth: how plate tectonics sets up life Orbiting Earth: up through the atmosphere Exploring the Earth-Moon system Disc 2: Humans on the Moon: a never ending story Exploring Mars from space and the ground Water on Mars and prospects for life Near-Earth asteroids and the asteroid belt Mighty Jupiter, the ruling gas giant Jupiter's planetlike system of moons Disc 3: Saturn and the rings: gravity's masterpiece Saturn's moons: Titan to Enceladus Uranus: a water world on its side Neptune: windy with the wildest moon Pluto and Charon: the binary worlds Comets, the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud Disc 4: How our Sun defines our solar system A solar system time machine and meteorites What the biggest exoplanets reveal Closing in on Earthlike exoplanets Planets migrated in our early solar system! Human futures in the solar system
