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Mars Nearer the Earth Than for 100 Years

Date released

28 Aug 1924

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

679-1

NoS ID

129584

Story no

1 / 3

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Greenwich Observatory keeps a calm official eye on the ‘Red Planet’." Technician sits down to look through giant telescope. 2ND SUBTITLE]: "The Editor of ‘Popular Wireless’ listens...

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Made for Mars: The Pathfinder (1997 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. 60 min., 1999 sale: US$19.95 (+p&p)

Discusses the design and construction of the Pathfinder space probe, which landed on Mars on 4 July 1997 and returned data for the following three months. Also looks at the challenges of launching a trip to...

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Macbeth (1916 Film)

Fiction film. A highly abbreviated version of Macbeth with Georgette Leblanc-Maeterlinck as Lady Macbeth and Severin-Mars as Macbeth. No further details known.

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Pathfinder and the Best of Mars (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

CD-ROM

150 royalty-free pictures of Mars from the Mariner, Viking and Pathfinder space probes and the Hubble telescope. Includes live motion video clips and 20 three-dimensional images.

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Mars Alive (1993 Video)

Producer

Peter Ceresole

Subject

Astronomy; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the possibility of inhabiting Mars. NASA scientist Chris McKay believes that it will possible ‘terraform’ Mars by creating a new atmosphere and add water and plants to make the planet habitable.

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Planet Mars: The Red Planet (1997 Video)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

NASA pictures from the Viking space probe, launched in 1975. Shows the volcanoes and frozen polar regions of Mars, and shows how information about Mars is valuable in measuring the earth’s evolution....

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Exploration of Mars, The (1981 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale (video - Focal Point), Videocassette. VHS. col. 13 min.

NASA has sent four Mariner spacecraft close to Mars and landed two Viking spacecraft on it. Photographs and scientific data from experiments conducted on the surface were relayed to earth. Using these...

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Planet Mars, The (1979 Video)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

A history of Mars and first observations of the Viking mission. The Viking voyage is shown as a mix between simulations of the flights and real actions at Mission Control, with transmissions from the surface...

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Aliens from Mars (1996 Video)

Producer

Danielle Peck; Max Whitby

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Fossils in a small meteoric rock discovered in the Antarctic have been cited as evidence that life once existed on Mars. Follows the detective story of rock ALH8401 and speaks to NASA scientists and their...

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Flight to Mars (2000 Video)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows the development of the ‘Beagle 2’ Mars lander for the 2003 European Space Agency mission to Mars. It was designed by British scientist Colin Pillinger to search for criteria to determine whether...

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