DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

A field guide to the planets / Professor Sabine Stanley.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, 2019.

©2019

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

digital optical stereo

NTSC

video file DVD video

Great courses. Science & Mathematics : Astronomy

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Planets.

Solar system.

Lectures.

Science films.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Stanley, Sabine, author, speaker.

Teaching Company, production company.

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.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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