Status
Available
Call number
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