Format:
Video disc
Title:
A field guide to the planets
ISBN:
9781629977881
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2019]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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General Note:
"24 lectures/30 minutes per lecture."
"Course no. 9566."
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"Course no. 9566"--Container
Contents:
Disc 1: How the solar system family is organized -- Mercury, the extreme little planet -- Venus, the veiled greenhouse planet -- Earth: how plate tectonics sets up life -- Orbiting Earth: up through the atmosphere -- Exploring the Earth-Moon system -- Disc 2: Humans on the Moon: a never ending story -- Exploring Mars from space and the ground -- Water on Mars and prospects for life -- Near-Earth asteroids and the asteroid belt -- Mighty Jupiter, the ruling gas giant -- Jupiter's planetlike system of moons -- Disc 3: Saturn and the rings: gravity's masterpiece -- Saturn's moons: Titan to Enceladus -- Uranus: a water world on its side -- Neptune: windy with the wildest moon -- Pluto and Charon: the binary worlds -- Comets, the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud -- Disc 4: How our Sun defines our solar system -- A solar system time machine and meteorites -- What the biggest exoplanets reveal -- Closing in on Earthlike exoplanets -- Planets migrated in our early solar system! -- Human futures in the solar system.
Summary:
An overview of the planets and smaller planetary objects in our solar system, presented by Professor Sabine Stanley of Johns Hopkins University.
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