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Wonders of the solar system. Season 1, episode 3, The thin blue line
Title
Wonders of the solar system. Season 1, episode 3, The thin blue line / directed by Tom Ranson, Chris Holt ; narrated by Jack Fortune ; produced by British Broadcasting Corporation.
Publication
London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (55 minutes)
Local Notes
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Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed September 2, 2022).
In English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Prepare to immerse yourself in an alien world as if you were standing there yourself. Giant ice fountains rising over 100km high; an ocean hidden beneath a frozen crust of ice; storms twice the size of Earth coloured blood red by a vortex of dust and gases; immense volcanoes that could rip a planet apart - this series reveals the true and awesome beauty of our solar system. Using the very latest breathtaking images sent directly from space, groundbreaking CGI transforms the static into the dramatic. Travelling from the Sun to the far-out reaches of Neptune, the series has at its heart the latest scientific knowledge beamed back from the fleet of probes, rovers and telescopes currently in space, and offers a vivid and unprecedented tour of the world beyond our planet. In The Thin Blue Line Brian reveals how something as flimsy as an envelope of gas - an atmosphere - can create some of the most wondrous sights in the solar system. In The Thin Blue Line Brian takes a ride in an English Electric Lightning and flies 18 km up to the top of earth's atmosphere, where he sees the darkness of space above and the thin blue line of our atmosphere below. In the Namib desert in south-west Africa, he tells the story of Mercury. This tiny planet was stripped naked of its early atmosphere and is fully exposed to the ferocity of space. Against the stunning backdrop of the glaciers of Alaska, Brian reveals his fourth wonder: Saturn's moon Titan, shrouded by a murky, thick atmosphere. He reveals that below the clouds lies a magical world. Titan is the only place beyond earth where we've found liquid pooling on the surface in vast lakes, as big as the Caspian Sea, but the lakes of Titan are filled with a mysterious liquid, and are quite unlike anything on earth.
Variant and related titles
Thin blue line
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Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 07, 2022
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary television programs.
Also listed under
British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.
BBC Worldwide Ltd., film distributor.
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