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Stanley, Sabine.
Planets.
Extrasolar planets.
Asteroids.
Comets.
Solar system.
Sun.
Moon.
MARC Display
A
field
guide
to the
planets
[videorecording (DVD)] / Professor Sabine Stanley.
by
Stanley, Sabine.
The Teaching Company, 2019.
Call #:
DVD 523.2 S789f
Subjects
Planets
.
Extrasolar
planets
.
Asteroids.
Comets.
Solar system.
Sun.
Moon.
Series
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Astronomy.
Great courses (DVD)
ISBN:
9781629977881
Alternate title:
Great Courses. A
field
guide
to the
planets
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Description:
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Notes:
"24 lectures / 30 min. per lesson"--Container.
Course no. 9566.
Home use only.
Closed-captioned.
Bibliography:
Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309).
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.
Performers:
Lecturer: Professor Sabine Stanley, Johns Hopkins University.
Summary:
"Get to know the
planets
, moons, asteroids, comets, exoplanets, and more as a distinguished professor reveals the secrets of the solar system."--Container.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Science films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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2
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