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1) Eyes on Mars
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1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The main feature "Eyes On Mars" is a fascinating movie about our ongoing quest to fully understand the mysteries that are Mars. Bonus features include commentary by guest experts, a Mars art gallery, and short films about Mars explorations.
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For over a decade, NASA's Cassini space probe has been transmitting images of Saturn's rings and moons. This program presents Cassini's observations of Saturn's surface and chronicles the probe's final hours as it enters the planet's atmosphere.
Follows the final hours of the Cassini space probe as it falls into Saturn's atmosphere.
4) Interstellar
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1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of space travelers journey through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet.
5) Solaris
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris, terrified crew members are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including eerie visitors who seem all too human.
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet (*March of the Penguins*) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear evidence of man-made global climate change. Through remarkable archival footage and stunning drone cinematography, this is an epic tale where science and adventure meet, equal parts contemplative memoir and an ardent call to action. Nominated for a...
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1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This videodisc showcases the latest scientific revelations from a planet, once alien, now poised to reveal provocative new clues in the tantalizing quest to plumb its past for signs of water and, perhaps, even life.
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
10) Pluto and beyond
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the New Horizons spacecraft whizzed by Pluto in 2015, Earthlings were dazzled by the breathtaking images it beamed home. They revealed a never-before-seen alien landscape - a world of mountains made of ice mixed with plains of frozen-solid methane and nitrogen. After over two years of poring over the data, NASA has made remarkable new discoveries about everyone's favorite dwarf planet. But New Horizons didn't stop there.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Take an up-close look at the most dangerous mission in the history of exploration. Recount the triumphant first manned space flight. Interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, mission control, and journalists.
12) Red planet
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-21st century, the nations of a dying Earth look starward for a solution and set out to colonize Mars. But something no one could have expected awaits. Houston, we have big trouble.
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1311 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise travel through space in order to defend the United Federation of Planets and explore new worlds.
The original adventure that started the enduring sci-fi pop culture phenomenon. Fan favorite episodes from season two include Spock and Kirk facing off in "Amok Time," "Mirror, Mirror," which introduces the evil "mirror universe," "Journey to Babel," featuring the introduction of Spock's parents Sarek...
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or evidence of it, beyond Earth.
15) Big Pacific
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2 videodiscs (approximately 265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the Earth's surface, holds half of the world's water, and hides the deepest place on the planet. It is a place where huge and iconic, rare and dazzling creatures live, and where creatures yet to be discovered lurk. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program breaks the boundaries between land and sea to present the Pacific Ocean in a way never seen before.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They were pioneering warriors, expert seafarers, and colonists of the North Atlantic realm. The Vikings even claimed in their sagas to have reached America. Now, renowned archaeologist Sarah Parcak uncovers new clues about their legendary expeditions and settlements.
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
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1 videodisc (approximately 41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shackleton's Antarctic adventure recounts the extraordinary true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which many consider "the greatest survival story of all time." This expedition has become a testament to heroism and human endurance, with all 28 men surviving nearly two years in the barren, frigid Antarctic when their ship, the Endurance, was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed....
19) Mission to Mars
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NASA launches a Mars Recovery Mission to investigate and bring back survivors from the first manned mission to Mars which has mysteriously disappeared.
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