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Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Item# 52543
© 2012
180 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-374-7
Every part of Earth’s one-year trip around the sun is essential to maintaining life as we know it, not least because it gives us the seasons that transform our planet. And without Earth’s unique axial...
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Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth
Item# 52482
© 2012
59 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-313-6
Activity on the surface of the Sun is ramping up, increasing the risk of massive storms of plasma. And what’s more, these storms will continue to happen for a number of years. But what are solar storm...
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Spin: Orbit—Earth’s Extraordinary Journey
Item# 52544
© 2012
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-375-4
This program goes from July to the December solstice, when the planet experiences spectacular weather and the largest tides on Earth. To show how the Earth’s orbit affects human life, Helen Czerski ju...
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Tilt: Orbit—Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Item# 52546
© 2012
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-377-8
In this program, the Earth completes its journey, travelling from the March equinox to the end of June. Kate Humble is in the Arctic at a place where spring arrives with a bang, while Helen Czerski ch...
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Trajectory: Orbit—Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Item# 52545
© 2012
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-376-1
This program travels from January to the March equinox. Kate Humble gets closer to the sun than she has ever been before, while Helen Czerski visits a place that gets some of the biggest snowstorms on...
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New to Our Collection! Space: Ever Wondered? (Series 1)
Item# 53244
© 2011
22 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-777-6
The number of New Zealanders involved at the cutting edge of global astronomical research is impressive indeed—and the potential of the international projects being undertaken in that country is mind-...
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New to Our Collection! The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide
Item# 52582
© 2011
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-413-3
After more than 30 years of missions, America’s space shuttle program concluded when the final orbiter took to the skies for the last time in 2011. Its story has been characterized by incredible trium...
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Breaking the Wall of the Beginning of Time: How Cosmology Will Tell Us What Happened Before the Big Bang
Item# 49411
© 2011
13 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-472-3
What happened at the beginning of the universe? Was the big bang the real origin? Is our universe unique? Are its basic features determined by mathematical laws or historical accid...
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Destination Titan
Item# 44721
© 2011
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-127-8
It was a voyage of exploration like no other. Intrigued by the similarity of Titan’s atmosphere to that of a primordial Earth, scientists in 1997 sent a probe to Saturn’s largest moon to test its surf...
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Our Expanding Universe
Item# 47532
© 2010
8 Min.
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Our understanding of the Universe and the technology used to observe it is constantly evolving. When Edwin Hubble discovered that the Universe was expanding in 1929 with galaxies becoming increasingly...
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