In 1959 the Soviet probe Lunik 2 becomes the first spacecraft ever to hit the Moon. Within a month it is followed by Lunik 3, which takes the first pictures of the dark side of the Moon. Soviet Union had already impressed the world with the Sputniks, the first satellites, and when in 1961 the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, the Americans are embarrassed. President Kennedy starts a space race by declaring that US is going to land a man on the Moon. They Americans work hard to fulfill this goal, and on July 1969 the astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man ever taking a walk on the Moon. The scientists are eager to research soil and rocks brought back from the Moon. They find out that the Moon is just as old as Earth and is made of the same rock, but has no water. The most accepted theory from now on is that the Moon in the beginning is a part of Earth. When Earth collides violently with another celestial body, a lot of rocks and other stuff are hurled out ... Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}
All Episodes - S01
EPS01
The planets are nine worlds that seem to have little in common, except that they circle around a single sun and are bound together by its gravity. Shortly after World War ...
EPS02
Earth is a living planet. Volcanic eruptions mean that it is geological alive. Astronomers and geologists wondered for a long time if other planets also are alive. When a ...
EPS03
To send space probes to the four giant planets in the outer solar system seemed in the mid-60's impossible. Rocket power could carry a spacecraft no further than Jupiter. ...
EPS04
In 1959 the Soviet probe Lunik 2 becomes the first spacecraft ever to hit the Moon. Within a month it is followed by Lunik 3, which takes the first pictures of the dark s ...
EPS05
A spectroscope splits the sun light into different colors, thereby making it possible to analyze which elements the Sun is made of. When the spectroscope is turned to dif ...
EPS06
The Planets looks at planetary atmospheres. It looks at the life giving atmosphere of Earth, the crushing greenhouse of Venus, the thin gaseous layer of Mars, and the mae ...
EPS07
The Planets examines the prospects of life on other worlds in our solar system. It looks at Venus, Mars, and the water bearing moons of the outer planets. ...
EPS08
The Planets looks at the ultimate fate of our solar system and examines the possibility of extrasolar planets. ...
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