A Field Guide to the Planets

by Sabine Stanley

Streaming video, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

523.2

Collections

Publication

Great Courses (2019), 24 lectures, 30 minutes each, 315 pages

Description

"Get to know the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, exoplanets, and more as a distinguished professor reveals the secrets of the solar system."--Container.

Language

Original language

English

Local notes

[01] How the Solar System Family Is Organized [02] Mercury, the Extreme Little Planet [03] Venus, the Veiled Greenhouse Planet [04] Earth: How Plate Tectonics Sets Up Life [05] Orbiting Earth: Up through the Atmosphere [06] Exploring the Earth-Moon System [07] Humans on the Moon: A Never-Ending Story [08] Exploring Mars from Space and the Ground [09] Water on Mars and Prospects for Life [10] Near-Earth Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt [11] Mighty Jupiter, The Ruling Gas Giant [12] Jupiter’s Planetlike System of Moons [13] Saturn and the Rings: Gravity’s Masterpiece [14] Saturn’s Moons: Titan to Enceladus [15] Uranus: A Water World on Its Side [16] Neptune: Windy with the Wildest Moon [17] Pluto and Charon: The Binary Worlds [18] Comets, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud [19] How Our Sun Defines Our Solar System [20] A Solar System Time Machine and Meteorites [21] What the Biggest Exoplanets Reveal [22] Closing in on Earthlike Exoplanets [23] Planets Migrated in Our Early Solar System! [24] Human Futures in the Solar System
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