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Stardate - XS020/DVD01
This DVD contains 3 programmes from the BBC 2 series StardateMission to Titan
After a seven year journey strapped to the side of the Cassini orbiter, the Huygens probe was set free on Christmas Day 2004 to begin its 20 day parachute-assisted descent through Titan's atmosphere. The aim - to collect data as the parachutes slow the probe from supersonic speeds. This programme explores the importance of the mission and the vital data we expect to find.
Deep Impact
As NASA crashes a space-probe into a comet, blasting a crater the size of Wembley stadium, this award-winning Stardate is broadcast from mission headquarters bringing the latest pictures and reactions from the project’s scientists to the British public.
Mysteries of Venus
As the Venus Express spacecraft approaches its destination, this programme examines this most intriguing of planets to help find the answers to why a planet the same size, age and of similar composition to Earth has become our almost exact opposite. Why is it so hot? Could Venus’s runaway greenhouse effect one day happen on Earth? Why does the entire surface of the planet seem to have been resurfaced in one go? And do the opaque clouds which surround Venus host an even greater mystery: alien life?
Publication Year: 2005
Length: 90mins
ISBN: 9780749226145