A field guide to the planets
DVD - 2019
"Get to know the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, exoplanets, and more as a distinguished professor reveals the secrets of the solar system."--Container.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Teaching Company
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Item Description
- Title from disc label.
"The Great courses, Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Astronomy"--Cover.
"Course number 9566"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD.
- Bibliography
- Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309).
- ISBN
- 9781629977881
- 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.