Wonders of The Solar System

[magma]

lhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentar ... time.shtml
All about this.

I remember watching that... good, but Kaku gets on my nerves after a while. He did a series on technology of the future recently... content was great, but it was really in need of a different voiceover.

[djdowee]

does anybody know what the 3rd episode will cover?

2nd was brilliant

[magma]

does anybody know what the 3rd episode will cover?

2nd was brilliant

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. He takes a ride in a English Electric Lightning and flies 18kms 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 is 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.

[saphyre]

whens this on?

[kay]

Sunday?

I thought the next episode would cover Jupiter's giant spot as well, thought i saw that on the telly while at the takeaway.

[kay]

Yet another enjoyable episode. The footage from the Huygens probe was awesome!

"...Where did you get this water from??"

[firky]

I still enjoyed it but I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous two. I wish he'd stop grinning at everything, it makes me want to grin with him.

[firky]

He's even grinning on his work's webpage!!!

http://www.apolloschildren.com/brian/

[kay]

I can't imagine many professors would have a photo gallery page

I want to be like him when I grow up!

[djake]

me and my dad have been watching this, its pretty much the only kinda stuff i bother watching on tv these days.

i just wish there was more on tv.

[saphyre]

methanological cycle on titan is the one

[magma]

Yet another enjoyable episode. The footage from the Huygens probe was awesome!

"...Where did you get this water from??"

Enjoyed this one... I think it was the weaker of the three so far, but still loads of great stuff. Talk about Titan always gets me excited... I want someone to send a massive space-tug out there and tear it out of its orbit and into a warmer area of the solar system just so humans can see what happens.

I thought he might get a bit more into the Big Spot, tbh... but I suppose an anti-cyclonic storm is an anti-cyclonic storm.

The Gas Giants have always freaked me out a bit. I want to know a lot more about them.

[kay]

Yet another enjoyable episode. The footage from the Huygens probe was awesome!

"...Where did you get this water from??"

Enjoyed this one... I think it was the weaker of the three so far, but still loads of great stuff. Talk about Titan always gets me excited... I want someone to send a massive space-tug out there and tear it out of its orbit and into a warmer area of the solar system just so humans can see what happens.

I thought he might get a bit more into the Big Spot, tbh... but I suppose an anti-cyclonic storm is an anti-cyclonic storm.

The Gas Giants have always freaked me out a bit. I want to know a lot more about them.

Go read Titan by Stephen Baxter

I've always been fascinated by the gas giants. They're one of the first things that I remember reading about. I thought he'd mention the comet that crashed into Jupiter, Shoemaker-Levy.

I wonder whether the next one will be on tectonics and vulcanism! Looking forward to Io.

[magma]

Go read Titan by Stephen Baxter

I've always been fascinated by the gas giants. They're one of the first things that I remember reading about. I thought he'd mention the comet that crashed into Jupiter, Shoemaker-Levy.

I wonder whether the next one will be on tectonics and vulcanism! Looking forward to Io.

Nice one - that looks ACE.

Yeah, I thought there was more to say on Jupiter... I kind of get the impression the most interesting/useful things about Jupiter are its size and its moons though!

Next one's definitely looking geological... apparently the 'wonder' is the mahoosive Martian mountain. Good times!

[kay]

Yeah, I thought there was more to say on Jupiter... I kind of get the impression the most interesting/useful things about Jupiter are its size and its moons though!

Also, I think they're trying to tease out the lesser-known things about the solar system. To be honest though, I think we don't know enough about Jupiter for them to talk much about it in great detail. They can describe it in broad, sweeping strokes, but the minutiae are still pretty much unknown. To me, the most interesting thing about Jupiter is that it's essentially a failed star - one that was just a little bit too small to ignite. That in itself is a wonder because the solar system would be completely different if it had been massive enough to be a star.

[Motorway to Roswell]

Enjoyed the episode tonight. Not as good as the previous one though.

Next week 'Aliens', life in the solar system

[firky]

I still have it to watch, keep forgetting it is on.

[sonar]

i like the guy that presents it but he reminds me soo much of the guy from dead mans shoe's/spencer from hollyoaks.

[kay]

I think the last episode was the weakest, as is usual with most documentaries. I guess they did have to squeeze something in about life.

[-dubson-]

Never really got into this. To me the solar system itself isnt really that interesting myself (strangely).