The Great Courses Amazon ChannelA Field Guide to the Planets (2019) is a series web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch A Field Guide to the Planets online in HD.
A Field Guide to the Planets — Storyline
Get to know your planets with help from Professor Sabine Stanley's thrilling ride of discovery, illustrated by the phenomenal images NASA has gathered through its telescopes, cameras, and laboratories on Earth and among the stars. A Field Guide to the Planets offers a fuller picture of what scientists know about our solar system – and how much there is yet to learn.
Cast & Crew
A Field Guide to the Planets — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2019-11-08 |
| Seasons | 1 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Genre | series |
| Language | English |
| Status | Returning Series |
A Field Guide to the Planets — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: How the Solar System Family Is Organized (2019-11-08) — Since 1962, robots have been exploring our solar system to help answer this most important question: Who are we? With fascinating data and images now in hand, explore this family a
- E2: Mercury, The Extreme Little Planet (2019-11-08) — Mercury is a planet of many solar system extremes; learning how these characteristics result in a planet where the Sun sometimes moves backward across the sky; a planet where water
- E3: Venus, The Veiled Greenhouse Planet (2019-11-08) — The Venusian carbon dioxide atmosphere causes the hottest surface temperature in the solar system; the Earth and Venus contain about the same amount of carbon; the forces that resu
- E4: Earth: How Plate Tectonics Sets Up Life (2019-11-08) — A theory proposed less than 70 years ago says that plate tectonics could be a main driver of life on Earth; exploring the movement of the planet's surface; the many ways in which a
- E5: Orbiting Earth: Up through the Atmosphere (2019-11-08) — Earth has a relatively thin atmosphere; without this layer, life would not evolve and thrive; the properties of each atmospheric layer; encountering specific ways to explore each l
- E6: Exploring the Earth-Moon System (2019-11-08) — The Earth's moon is the largest moon in the solar system relative to its planet's size; the many ways in which this system affects the tides on Earth and on the Moon, the planet's
- E7: Humans on the Moon: A Never-Ending Story (2019-11-08) — Even before the invention of telescopes, humans are familiar with various aspects of the Moon's surface; one can also explore complex lunar swirls, sinuous rilles and the lava tube
- E8: Exploring Mars from Space and the Ground (2019-11-08) — Humanity's fascination with Mars is never-ending; learning how the similarities and differences between Earth and Mars result in Mars' planet-wide dust storms, migrating polar ice
- E9: Water on Mars and Prospects for Life (2019-11-08) — Recent robotic exploration provides evidence that Mars' barren landscape could be much more Earth-like in the past; whether Mars could be an Earth sibling; discoveries that will gu
- E10: Near-Earth Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt (2019-11-08) — How collisions with asteroids can be avoided, with 20,000 asteroids identified in near-Earth orbit; why these rocky bodies, and those in the Asteroid Belt, never accrete into plane
- E11: Mighty Jupiter, The Ruling Gas Giant (2019-11-08) — Whether Jupiter has a greater similarity to the Earth or to the Sun; exploring the many ways in which Jupiter is unique among the planets; what the solar system would be like witho
- E12: Jupiter's Planetlike System of Moons (2019-11-08) — The 79 Jovian moons; why Jupiter's gravitational forces, plus the orbital resonance of the three interior moons, make these some of the most promising places to search for life; wh
- E13: Saturn and the Rings: Gravity's Masterpiece (2019-11-08) — Saturn and its complex ring system; what decades of exploration reveal about the origin and morphology of these icy rings; how they interact with Saturn's closest moons; propeller
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does A Field Guide to the Planets have? 1 season(s) with 13 episodes.
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