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Planetary heat pumps

These resources from the European Space Agency climate change initiative education resource pack allow students to learn about how the ocean circulation has an impact on the climate. This redistribution of heat around the Earth 'planetary heat pump' supplies warmer water to the poles and influences the rate at...

Planetary Scientist

Sheila Kanani is a PhD student at University College London (UCL), and analyses data from a spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn. This Department for Education clip gives students insight into the world of space science.

Sheila describes how her involvement in space science has taken her to Russia, to see...

This work gives us a view of the Solar System culled from millions of photographs taken by unmanned spacecraft up to the end of the 20th century.

The latest NASA and European Space Station images, many unique to this book, are combined with up-to-the-minute information from space experts. And there's lots to do. Track Venus at night, create alien life, and...

Employing state-of-the-art computer graphics, unseen space race archive and testimony from leading scientists, The Planets is the most comprehensive and spectacular account of space exploration and discovery ever made. This double DVD contains all eight 50-minute episodes. 

• Different Worlds: A look at...

Describes the sun and the nine planets in the solar system, their physical makeup, their moons, and their location in the solar system.

This informative series introduces the reader to various aspects of space and the solar system. It explores the features of the solar system, describes the machines and vehicles used to explore space and looks at the...

Extensively illustrated, this book describes the nature and origin of the solar system; looks at the internal structure, surface features and weather patterns of each planet and its major satellites; discusses the...

'The Planets' guides the reader in an exploration of the solar system. It starts when the solar system was born from a huge swirling cloud of gas and dust and explains hot rocky planets and huge gas giants, crater-...