The planets
Subtitle: Volume 2. : Giants ; Moon
By: a BBC/A & E network co-production ; series producer, David McNab
Contributors: Smith, Jacqueline; British Broadcasting Corporation; Arts and Entertainment Network; New Video Group
Publisher: A & E Television Networks; Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Planets
Other titles: Giants & Moon; Giants; Moon; Planets (Television program)
Description: There are unimaginably vast orbs of seething gas and brilliant cloud bands that contain virtually no landscapes. Now take a closer look at these planetary behemoths: Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune (1st work). While a number of planets are accompanied by moons of all sizes and compositions, only the Earth boasts such a comparatively huge 'companion world.' What forces could have resulted in this planetary odd couple? Join the search for the answer to one of the solar system's most baffling mysteries (2nd work).
Notes: Two episodes of a television program 1st broadcast in 1999.

Special features: schedule of past, present and future eclipses; WEB links to space camp sites.

Narrator, Karen Stone.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Giants. Dream of flights; title: Planets align; title: Testing the way; title: First encounter; title: Jupiter's moons; title: Cassini's rings; title: Icy moons; title: Nothing to see; title: The outer edge; title: Final encounter; title: A new era; title: Moon. Destination: the moon; title: The Luna missions; title: Race to the moon; title: Learning to walk; title: A man on the moon; title: Moon rocks; title: Cinder cones; title: Apollo 17; title: Violent origins; title: A stepping stone.; title: Giants / writer-producer, Jacqueline Smith; title: Moon.