Spaceship Earth(1997)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1997-05-18
Average Runtime: 5m
Rating: 9.1
Votes: 8
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 52
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.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Winter)
Episodes: 11E01
Week 1: The Journey Begins (New Year)
Air Date: 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 sta...
E02
Week 2: Travelling in the Solar System (Early January)
Air Date: 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 ar...
E03
Week 3: The Moon, Our Companion (Mid-January)
Air Date: 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....
E04
Week 4: The Full Moon (Late January)
Air Date: 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...
E05
Week 5: Earth's Rotation (January/February)
Air Date: 1997-05-18
Earth's Rotation. The Moon shows us where Mars is. Copernicus: The Earth in orbit. Why the Earth turns. Crossing time...
E06
Week 6: Copernicus and Kepler (Early February)
Air Date: 1997-05-18
Hidden planets. Kepler discovers the planets' timetable. The Earth moves more quickly in Winter. Earth overtakes Ma...
E07
Week 7: Gravity (Early/Mid-February)
Air Date: 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. S...
E08
Week 8: The Stars (Mid-February)
Air Date: 1997-05-18
Columbus and the Pole Star. Earth wobbles over the centuries. The imaginary 'heavenly vault'. The Sun, our star. Infi...
E09
Week 9: The Calendar (Late February)
Air Date: 1997-05-18
Leap Days: The Earth misses a quarter of a day. Gregorian and Orthodox calendars. Solar and lunar calendars. Solid an...
E10
Week 10: Waning Moon and Solar Eclipses (Early March)
Air Date: 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 invisi...
E11
Week 11: Eclipses and Occultations (Mid-March)
Air Date: 1997-05-18
Annular solar eclipses. Partial solar eclipses. The Moon eclipsed in Earth's shadow. Occultation of Aldebaran.
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