A Field Guide to the Planets

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Call Number: DVD 523.2 St Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / Science & Nature / Astronomy / Field Guide To The Planets
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 523.2 St Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult DVD / Great Courses / Science & Nature / Astronomy / Field Guide To The Planets	4-week checkout	On Shelf

24 lectures (30 minutes each).
"Course no. 9566"--Container.
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.
Lecturer: Professor Sabine Stanley, Johns Hopkins University.
"Get to know the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, exoplanets, and more as a distinguished professor reveals the secrets of the solar system."--Container.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Excellent organization layout of info! submitted by yufamily on August 8, 2020, 9:40am Professor Sabine Stanley is knowledgeable but she doesn't move around and feels like she's just reading off the teleprompter... The Great Courses usually have engaging presenters but she just feels kind of 'off.'

eh submitted by .-.-.-. on June 15, 2022, 10:02am It's alright. There is some good detail but it isn't very exciting. Wouldn't recommend