Great courses (DVD)

Title from disc label

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

24 lectures (30 minutes each)

"Course no. 9566"--Container

Lecturer: Professor Sabine Stanley, Johns Hopkins University

DVD

In English; closed-captioned

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