Stardate

Synopsis: This DVD contains 3 programmes from the BBC 2 series Stardate - MISSION TO TITAN, DEEP IMPACT and MISSION TO VENUS.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2007
Year of production: 2005
Notes: Broadcast in 3 separate parts on BBC2 on 14/1/2005; 4/7/2005; 12/4/2006
Subjects: Astronomy
Keywords: comets; space exploration; Venus; scientific investigation; Titan

Title: Mission to Titan
Synopsis: After a seven year journey strapped to the side of the Cassini orbiter, the Huygens probe was set free on Christmas Day 2004 to begin its 20 day parachute-assisted descent through Titan’s atmosphere. The aim was to collect data as the parachutes slowed the probe from supersonic speeds. This programme explores the importance of the mission and the vital data expected to be found.
Duration: 30 mins
Title: Deep Impact (Comet Impact)
Synopsis: Dr Brian Cox and Dr Lucie Green are on the spot in Los Angeles, as NASA reaches the climax of a scientific mission to crash a space probe into a comet. Pictures revealed by on-board cameras may uncover the secrets of the early solar system, as deep within the comet lies the ancient rock and ice from which the planets, the moon, and all life on earth was made. Lucie Green captures the public reaction to this potentially historic event
Duration: 30 mins
Title: Mysteries of Venus
Synopsis: Adam Hart-Davis is at mission control in Germany as the Venus Express spacecraft arrives on Venus. It’s mission is to work out how a planet that started out like the Earth has ended up with crushing air pressure, clouds of sulphuric acid, and a runaway greenhouse effect that’s made it hot enough on the surface to melt zinc. Could this be the fate of the Earth?
Duration: 30 mins

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