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Spaceship Earth

An educational series explaining the operation of the solar system using 3D animation. Its 52 episodes provide a week-by-week description of the operation of the solar system.

Genre: Documentary,

Actor:

Creator: Nicolas Gessner,

Country: France,

Type: tv

Season: 4

Episode: N/A

Duration: 5 minutes

Release: 1997-05-18

Rating: 9

1"Week 1: The Journey Begins (New Year)"

1997-05-18

Why it is cold when the Earth is closest to the sun. Why we see Venus in the morning. The planets are close, the stars unreachable.

2"Week 2: Travelling in the Solar System (Early January)"

1997-05-18

Day and Night. A gigantic Sun with tiny planets. A look at the Zodiac. The solar system is the present; the stars are the past.

3"Week 3: The Moon, Our Companion (Mid-January)"

1997-05-18

The Sun is on time but the Moon is late. Why we see the Moon as a crescent. The half-moon crosses the Earth's orbit. Where the Moon came from. The Moon: Delay in space and Time.

4"Week 4: The Full Moon (Late January)"

1997-05-18

Discovering Mercury. Distant moons of other planets. Why we always see the same side of the Moon. Why we see the Sun so low but the Moon so high.

5"Week 5: Earth's Rotation (January/February)"

1997-05-18

Earth's Rotation. The Moon shows us where Mars is. Copernicus: The Earth in orbit. Why the Earth turns. Crossing time zones.

6"Week 6: Copernicus and Kepler (Early February)"

1997-05-18

Hidden planets. Kepler discovers the planets' timetable. The Earth moves more quickly in Winter. Earth overtakes Mars. Why we have two tides every day.

7"Week 7: Gravity (Early/Mid-February)"

1997-05-18

Why the Earth is round. Newton's apple. Why the Earth does not fall into the Sun. Three minutes more Sun every day. Sundials and the Earth's axis. Comets.

8"Week 8: The Stars (Mid-February)"

1997-05-18

Columbus and the Pole Star. Earth wobbles over the centuries. The imaginary 'heavenly vault'. The Sun, our star. Infinitely large to infinitely small.

9"Week 9: The Calendar (Late February)"

1997-05-18

Leap Days: The Earth misses a quarter of a day. Gregorian and Orthodox calendars. Solar and lunar calendars. Solid and gaseous planets.

10"Week 10: Waning Moon and Solar Eclipses (Early March)"

1997-05-18

The half-moon shows where we are going. Where the stars go during the day. The Moon and the planets: The Sun's invisible companions. The Moon's shadow on the Earth: Solar Eclipses.

11"Week 11: Eclipses and Occultations (Mid-March)"

1997-05-18

Annular solar eclipses. Partial solar eclipses. The Moon eclipsed in Earth's shadow. Occultation of Aldebaran.

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