Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: A field guide to the planets / Professor Sabine Stanley. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, 2019. ©2019 Description: 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 Series: Great courses. Science & Mathematics : Astronomy Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Subjects: Planets. Solar system. Genre: Lectures. Science films. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Other Author: Stanley, Sabine, author, speaker. Teaching Company, production company. 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. Contents: 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. ISBN: 9781629977881 1629977888 Other Number: 1130233121 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 822232 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 523.2 Field gu Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1