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Solar System is a 2024 documentary TV mini series produced by the BBC and narrated by Brian Cox. The first episode was shown on BBC Two on 7 October 2024, [1] with the remaining four episodes made available on BBC iPlayer on the same date. [2] It follows Cox's previous series Wonders of the Solar System, shown in 2010, and The Planets, shown
The Planets is a 2019 BBC/PBS/Tencent/Open University television documentary series about the Solar System presented by Professor Brian Cox [2] in the UK version and Zachary Quinto in the US version. [ 3 ]
Solar system diagram by Emanuel Bowen in 1747, when neither Uranus, Neptune, nor the asteroid belts had yet been discovered. Orbits of planets are to scale, but the orbits of moons and the sizes of bodies are not. The term "Solar System" entered the English language by 1704, when John Locke used it to refer to the Sun, planets, and comets. [288]
Eyewitness is a documentary series. Each half-hour episode focuses on a single subject in the field of natural science, such as the Solar System or the various functions of the human body, similar in form to the book series on which it was based, with most being based, in part or in whole, off of existing book titles at the time, with few exceptions (though some titles, such as Planets and ...
A look at the atmosphere of our planet and those in the rest of the Solar System. 7: Life: 10 June 1999: A journey into looking for life on other planets and trying to find if life elsewhere really does exist. 8: Destiny: 17 June 1999: The final episode explores the future of the Solar System, plus research into extrasolar planets.
The third episode looks at the atmosphere of the planets and moons of the Solar System, with Earth, Mars, and Venus being the main focus. The episode starts with Cox travelling to South Africa and taking a journey in an English Electric Lightning up to an altitude of 18 kilometres where the "thinness and fragility" of the atmosphere could be ...
Various clues are presented in that "Earth" and its sister planet Kyros and Zelda (the latter two clearly analogous to Mars and Jupiter) are the second, third and fourth planets of their solar system rather than the third, fourth and fifth, while Paradise is the third planet of its own solar system (as is "our" Earth), although the different ...
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...