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The Universe: 7 Wonders of the Solar System 3D

(TV) (2010)
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The Universe: 7 Wonders of the Solar System 3D Blu-ray offers solid video and great audio in this overall recommended Blu-ray release
All five episodes from the BBC documentary science series presented by Professor Brian Cox. Whether it's Saturn's rings, the solar flares of the Sun or the deserts of Mars, Professor Cox demonstrates how the forces that shaped our world are also responsible for creating some of the most breathtaking sights in our solar system.

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The Universe: 7 Wonders of the Solar System 3D Blu-ray, Video Quality

The Universe: 7 Wonders of the Solar System is a success as not only a film but as a 3D release. It's far from the best currently on the market, but this A&E disc is priced right and more often than not looks quite good for what it is and all it has to work with. The film is made primarily from computer animated graphics. A small digital spaceship takes viewers around for a jaunt through the solar system, heading on out towards Saturn and making a U-turn back towards Jupiter, Mars, and the sun before heading back home to Earth. The graphics look quite nice, though it's clear the bulk of the money went into the heavenly bodies, leaving the spacecraft to fend for itself in graphics that might have looked good in a video game from a few years back. Still, the general detailing of it all is quite good; the image is extraordinarily crisp throughout, and colors, whether the bright blue waters of mother Earth or the fiery orange shades of the sun's photosphere, are all exceptionally bright and satisfying, particularly when offset against the perfectly black backgrounds. Back on Earth, the film's primary live action attraction comes in the form of several scientists offering their thoughts on the various places and events highlighted throughout the film. The image takes on a satisfying if not visually routine HD video sheen, revealing seamless detailing and fine colors. Unfortunately, slight banding, occasional shimmering, moderate blocking, and a few jagged edges bring down the score by half a point or so, but none are necessarily causes for alarm; they're never obtrusive and likely only to be noticed by the most eagle-eyed and demanding of audiences.

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The Universe: Season 5, Episode 1

TV Episode - 45 min - Documentary | History | Sci-Fi

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The seven wonder of our solar system are discussed: Enceladus' geysers, Rings of Saturn, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the Asteroid Belt, Mars' Olympus Mons, the Surface of the Sun, and planet Earth.

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Laura Danly, Alex Filippenko and Clifford Johnson

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	Laura Danly	...	Herself
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	Greg Laughlin	...	Himself
	Amy Mainzer	...	Herself
	Erik Thompson	...	Himself - Narrator

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The seven wonder of our solar system are discussed: Enceladus' geysers, Rings of Saturn, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the Asteroid Belt, Mars' Olympus Mons, the Surface of the Sun, and planet Earth

To begin Your Journey, Just Push Play

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Feature Presentation:
7 Wonders of the Solar System

...this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek.
See You Next Time! Love Ya!

Of course, one more Great Performance!

Just Push Play

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System

Solar System

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Solar System^[a] consists of the Sun and theastronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloudapproximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun. Of the many objects that orbitthe Sun, most of the mass is contained within eight relatively solitary planets^[e] whose orbits are almost circular and lie within a nearly flat disc called the ecliptic plane. The four smaller inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, also called the terrestrial planets, are primarily composed of rock and metal. The four outer planets, the gas giants, are substantially more massive than the terrestrials. The two largest, Jupiter and Saturn, are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium; the two outermost planets, Uranus and Neptune, are composed largely of ices, such as water, ammonia andmethane, and are often referred to separately as "ice giants".

The Solar System is also home to a number of regions populated by smaller objects. The asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, is similar to the terrestrial planets as it is composed mainly of rock and metal. Beyond Neptune's orbit lie the Kuiper belt and scattered disc; linked populations of trans-Neptunian objectscomposed mostly of ices such as water, ammonia and methane. Within these populations, five individual objects, Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris, are recognized to be large enough to have been rounded by their own gravity, and are thus termed dwarf planets.^[e] In addition to thousands of small bodies^[e] in those two regions, several dozen of which are considered dwarf-planet candidates, various other small body populations including comets, centaurs and interplanetary dust freely travel between regions. Six of the planets and three of the dwarf planets are orbited by natural satellites,^[b] usually termed "moons" after Earth's Moon. Each of the outer planets is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles.

The solar wind, a flow of plasma from the Sun, creates a bubble in the interstellar medium known as the heliosphere, which extends out to the edge of the scattered disc. The Oort cloud, which is believed to be the source for long-period comets, may also exist at a distance roughly a thousand times further than the heliosphere. The heliopause is the point at which pressure from the solar wind is equal to the opposing pressure of interstellar wind. The Solar System is located within one of the outer arms of Milky Way galaxy, which contains about 200 billion stars

Discovery and exploration

Main article: Discovery and exploration of the Solar System

For many thousands of years, humanity, with a few notable exceptions, did not recognize the existence of the Solar System. People believed the Earth to be stationary at the centre of the universe and categorically different from the divine or ethereal objects that moved through the sky. Although the Greek philosopher Aristarchus of Samos had speculated on a heliocentric reordering of the cosmos,^[1]Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to develop a mathematically predictive heliocentric system.^[2] His 17th-century successors, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton, developed an understanding of physics that led to the gradual acceptance of the idea that the Earth moves around the Sun and that the planets are governed by the same physical laws that governed the Earth. Additionally, the invention of the telescope led to the discovery of further planets and moons. In more recent times, improvements in the telescope and the use of unmanned spacecraft have enabled the investigation of geological phenomena such as mountains and craters, and seasonal meteorological phenomena such as clouds, dust storms and ice caps on the other planets.

From top to bottom: Neptune, Uranus,Saturn, and Jupiter

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Visual summary

A sampling of closely imaged Solar System bodies, selected for size and detail and sorted by volume. The Sun is approximately 10,000 times larger than, and 41 trillion times the volume of, the smallest object shown (Prometheus). Other lists include: List of Solar System objects by size, List of natural satellites, List of minor planets, and Lists of comets.

Solar System

Sun	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Earth	Venus

Mars	Ganymede	Titan	Mercury	Callisto	Io	Moon

Europa	Triton	Titania	Rhea	Oberon	Iapetus	Umbriel

Ariel	Dione	Tethys	Vesta	Enceladus	Miranda	Proteus

Mimas	Hyperion	Phoebe	Janus	Amalthea	Epimetheus	Prometheus