From Earth to Miranda

Synopsis: Follows the two Voyager spacecraft to Neptune, launched by NASA in 1977. Chronicles Voyager’s discoveries as it travels throughout the solar system. Features highlights from several earlier HORIZON programmes made by Fisher Dilke, and includes animated sequences from NASA. Shows the Voyager from its launch to its successful passage through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. One of the five moons of Uranus, Miranda, has been smashed and reformed many times, leaving it with a craggy terrain and the highest cliffs ever seen.
Series: Horizon, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
Year of production: 1990
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 29 Jan 1990.
Subjects: Astronomy; Space science
Keywords: earth; Neptune; planets; solar system; space exploration; Uranus

Name: BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
Contact: Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
Email: BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
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Phone: +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
Address: BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
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Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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