NOVA (PBS) - Venus Unveiled (1995)

Venus reveals its true face, recorded in detail for the first time by the radar spacecraft Magellan. Our next-door planetary neighbor turns out to be one of the most bizarre places in the solar system.

Original broadcast date: 10/17/95
Topic: astronomy/space exploration

Category:

Education

Tags:

• NOVA
• Venus
• Unveiled
• documentary

[txvoltaire]

Uniformitarianism? Isn't that the name of a church?

[TheVolure]

No wonder U.S.A fail for a world power.

[TheVolure]

Lol U.S.A making probs by junk hahah lol. Ps i don't read my comments i deletes it like your face.

[pytko3]

@atotalmoron His statements made in that section, remind me of Spock from Star trek

[asandwell]

Thank you so much digitaldave1982 for uploading this. I have been fascinated with astronomy and the solar system since I was a boy and I remember watching this and videotaping it when it first aired when I was eight years old and after the tape wore out or whatever happened to it I thought I would never see this again. But you have practically made my year with this show. Thanks heaps!!

[atotalmoron]

Wow look at young Carl Sagan at 6:00

[TheKumarMusic]

Some people say that the moon is moving farther away from the earth and eventually leave the earth and I think the venus was part of a planet (a moon) possibly thrown away towards the sun in such a way that it has no elliptical orbit or possibly the impact of other planets could have stabilized its circular path. It is newer than other planets because it was a moon, formed after the settling of dust just like our moon, with a smaller internal core and so no plate tectonics.

[f1471in3r]

option 3: covered in oil! Bush would have spent every dime we had getting there. "Mars, hell! We're Venus bound!"lol

[sockington1]

those loonies from 7.00 onwards want locking up in padded cells

[sockington1]

it's Magellan, not Majellan