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Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. It was not thought to rotate on its own axis so a solar day would equal a year. Shows how modern radar telescope techniques disproved this theory. The Mariner 10...
The earth is unique among planets in the solar system. Looks briefly at the major features in the planet’s development, with a look at the significance of water in the balance of the atmosphere and of...
Mars, the red planet, is historically believed to contain life because of its straight canals, seen through earlier astronomers’ telescopes. Looks at the exploration of the planet by the Mariner and Viking...
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...
There are currently nine known planets in the solar system. Mathematics of planetary motion predicts a tenth, outer planet and observations of the orbits of Neptune support this theory. Looks at the...
Earth is the only planet in the solar system to sustain life. Explains how the analysis of meteorites and comet observations give insights into the origins of the solar system. Infra-red telescopes in space...
Historical account of the formation of carbon-12. Nuclear astrophysics suddenly ‘took off’ as a science in the early 1950s when some exciting experiments brought nearer an understanding of nuclear...
Investigates the properties of the super-dense matter of white dwarfs, stars so compact that they are as massive as the sun but only the size of the earth.
Animated graphics show cloud moving along in Io’s orbit. Live photography includes ground-based and Voyager data.
Describes the birth and death of stars. Filmed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux, and at the Department of Astrophysics at Oxford University.
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