Science On The Newshour: Space Exploration
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In the conquest of space today, it is robots, not humans, who get the glory. Describes missions that represent the foreseeable future in space exploration: sensor-filled craft and remotely operated devices going where people can't. The program features Deep Impact, a comet-blasting probe; Cassini-Huygens, pioneer of Saturn's moon, Titan; Robonaut, a machine designed to perform human tasks; Ranger, a huge mechanical spider that could conceivably repair the Hubble Space Telescope; the Hubble itself, aging but carrying on; and the planned Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's eventual successor on the vanguard of deep-space science. Accessibility options on the DVD are: (1) audio description, (2) expanded audio description, (3) English subtitles, (4) English subtitles in black box, (5) closed captions.
Media Details
Runtime: 32 minutes 55 seconds
- Topic: Science
- Subtopic: Astronomy, Space Sciences
- Grade/Interest Level: 9 - 12
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- Release Year: 2005
- Producer/Distributor: Films Media Group
- Series: Science On The Newshour
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