ISBN:

• 9781629977881
• 1629977888

Description:

• 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
• digital optical stereo
• videodisc
• NTSC
• video file DVD video
• polychrome

Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR

Notes:

• Title from disc label.
• 24 lectures (30 minutes each).
• "Course no. 9566"--Container.
• Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309).
• Lecturer: Professor Sabine Stanley, Johns Hopkins University.
• DVD.
• In English; closed-captioned.

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.

Publisher or Distributor Number:

• ID9566A
• PB9566A
• 9566
• 12674005

Control Number: 2916962

UPC: 978162997788

Series:

• Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
• Great courses. Science & mathematics. Astronomy

Subjects:

• Planets.
• Solar system.

Genre:

• Educational films.
• Lectures.
• Nonfiction films.
• Science films.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

• Stanley, Sabine, 1976- author, speaker.
• Teaching Company, production company.