The Planets - Season 1

The Planets - Season 1

Season 1

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DatesApr 29, 1999 - Jun 17, 1999

Episodes

Different Worlds
Season 1Episode 150 min

Different Worlds

The discovery of Pluto in 1930 set the limits of the known solar system, in which the nine planets orbitingthe sun present a fascinating series of enigmas.

Apr 29, 1999
Terra Firma
Season 1Episode 250 min

Terra Firma

Although there is a volcano on Mars, and Venus has giant plains of frozen lava, for many years it seemed that the planets' surfaces were geologically dead. But at the end of the seventies, living volcanoes spitting boiling sulphur, ice and frozen nitrogen were found on the moons of Jupiter and Neptune.

May 6, 1999
Giants
Season 1Episode 350 min

Giants

For centuries Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune had puzzled astronomers, but in the late seventies the Voyager space probe embarked on a 12-year, four billion-mile journey to explore them, and found worlds that defied imagination.

May 13, 1999
Moon
Season 1Episode 450 min

Moon

For centuries human beings struggled to understand the origins of the Moon. But even after 20 years of lunar exploration, scientists were still in the dark. Then an astronomer from Arizona came up with a solution to the riddle.

May 20, 1999
Star
Season 1Episode 550 min

Star

The series on the history of the solar system continues with the story of man's quest to understand the body atthe centre of our solar system -the Sun -from the etchings made by Galileo to the very latest solar probes.

May 27, 1999
Atmosphere
Season 1Episode 650 min

Atmosphere

This week's film examines the astonishing weather systems found throughout the solar system. They include sulphuric acid rain, metallic snow and violent dust storms.

Jun 3, 1999
Life
Season 1Episode 750 min

Life

The series on the history of the solar system continues with a look at extra-terrestrial life.

With the failure of the Viking probe to discover life on Mars in 1976, scientists gave up hope of finding alien life in our solar system. However, scientists are now becoming optimistic again of finding proof.

Jun 10, 1999
Destiny
Season 1Episode 850 min

Destiny

The series ends with a look at the fate of the solar system.
Over the next four billion years, as a result of changes in the Sun. the Earth's oceans will boil, Saturn will lose its rings and one of Neptune's moons,
Triton, will break apart to form a new ring system. Will the future of humankind depend on finding a solar system with a planet like Earth?

Jun 17, 1999

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