The planets
Subtitle: Volume 4. : Life beyond the sun ; Destiny
By: a BBC/A & E network co-production
Contributors: Younger, James; British Broadcasting Corporation; Arts and Entertainment Network; New Video Group
Publisher: A & E; Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Life on other planets; Planets; Forecasting; Documentary television programs
Other titles: Life beyond the sun & Destiny; Life beyond the sun; Destiny; Planets (Television program)
Description: Come along for the ride as early planetary researchers learn that conditions on our neighboring planets may be too hostile to support life. Discover how recent findings hint there may be alien life 'hiding out' in places we've overlooked (1st work). Voyage to a future billions of years in the distance. Explore the Sun's expansion as it engulfs its planetary progeny in the final, fiery act of its billion-year long dilemma. Watch as chilly Mars experiences a sultry heat wave, Mercury and Venus melt down and gas giants undergo a startling cosmic change (2nd work).
Notes: Two episodes of the television program 1st broadcast in 1999.

Narrator, Karen Stone.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Life beyond the sun. Are we alone?; title: Search for life; title: First mission to Mars; title: Testing the soil; title: Water-based life; title: The oldest rocks; title: Obsession with Mars; title: Life on the moon; title: Martian meteorites; title: Below the surface; title: A new objective; title: Earth is not an island; title: Destiny. The life force; title: A final gift; title: Changing planets; title: Search for a new home; title: A red star; title: The hunt for planets; title: Strange worlds; title: Telescopes in space; title: A special beauty.