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This DVD contains 3 programmes from the BBC 2 series Stardate - MISSION TO TITAN, DEEP IMPACT and MISSION TO VENUS.
Introduces the current understand of the solar system and also looks at other heavenly bodies such as asteroids, comets and meteors.
Part 1 (1983): Pictures from the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Part 2 (1987): Pictures from the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Includes slides of Halley’s Comet, many different emission nebulae (e.g.Rosette...
Briefly describes the origins of the solar system and introduces comets by describing their place among the planets and asteroids orbiting the sun. Nuclei of proto-comets, consisting of stony material and...
Produced to herald the 1985-86 appearance of Halley’s Comet. Uses a mixture of VAX/11/750 computer animation, Quantel Paintbox graphics and archive visual material. Note: A new edition of the video taking...
Deals with the imminent return of Halley’s comet which was due (during winter 1985-6) to make its closest approach to earth since 1910. Describes how Edmund Halley discovered the comet in 1682 and looks at...
Combines animation with live action and documentary photography in an exploration of the role comets play in contemporary scientific research. The film was made before the space probe Giotto’s encounter...
Halley’s comet returned to the inner parts of the solar system during late 1985 and early 1986. Giotto and four other spacecraft took pictures of the orbit; there are also pictures from earth-based...
At 7.17am on June 30, 1908, an explosion of tremendous violence disrupted the remote Siberian taiga several hundred miles north of Irkutsk. The film describes this event and the scientific effort that has...
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