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An account of the space journeys of NASA’s two robot spacecrafts ‘Voyager 1’ and ‘Voyager 2’ and their photographic records of the planet Jupiter.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed a mission in the 1960s to send spacecraft to the giant outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In 1977 Voyagers 1 & 2 were launched. The leading...
Pictures from Voyager 1 and 2. Slides include pictures of red spots, swirling clouds, Io and a white oval, Galilean satellites, Amalthea, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede.
Jupiter and Saturn are the first pair of outer planets and are enormous compared to earth. They are dense, compressed masses of gas. From the data sent back by the Pioneer and Voyager space probes, the...
A distance learning package in 3 sections: introduction, case study (IBM) and discussion.
Twelve 12-minute programmes. 1: A ride into space. 2: Venus and Mercury. 3: Earth and Mars. 4: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. 5: Orian and related bodies. 6: Includes footage of a total eclipse of the sun. 7: A...
Discusses the thousands of asteroids orbiting the sun that are on a potential collision course ith earth. A warning of a possible disaster was given when a huge comet the size of Australia smashed into...
A documentary tracing the history of the telescope from the days of Copernicus to recent findings from the Hubble Telescope. The film begins in 17th century Florence, Italy, with Galileo training his...
Discusses developments in space exploration, including American and Russian flights to the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter. Geological features on these planets and on the moon give clues as to how...
Series of 25 10-minute programmes on space and astronomy.
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