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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
2) The galaxy
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. The documentary explores the galaxy and our solar system. Take a wild ride through the stars in Avatars Of The Astral Worlds presents The Galaxy.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1494, Christopher Columbus made a second journey to the Americas with more ships, more men, and a grander mission. His goal: to build the first European colony in the New World. But in just a few short years, his settlement would perish: one-fifth of its inhabitants dead, at least six ships sunk in the bay, and the legacy of Columbus permanently marred. What happened at the ill-fated settlement remains a mystery 500 years later.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Chronicles the efforts by a Canadian team to salvage the recently discovered Erberus, lost during the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition, whose mission was to chart the Northwest Passage. Sheds new light on the expedition's demise.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Safari alien̕gena: ¿Habr̀ aliens en nuestro patio trasero? Algunos cient̕ficos renombrados piensan que s̕. National Geographic lo llevar̀ a un mundo de alta tecnolog̕a; al buscador de inteligencia extraterrestre, tambǐn lo llevar̀ a conocer los 7 lugares en nuestro propio sistema solar en los cuales los cient̕ficos creen que la vida de los aliens est̀ escondida.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Located in Ethiopia, in one of the world's hottest regions, is the volcanic site of Dallol. At 120 meters below sea level, it is one of the most astonishing areas on the planet. Dallol is a vast mound that looms up out of the Danakil Depression known for its extreme salinity levels. As a result of the site's deep volcanic activity, the area features springs, fumaroles, geysers and highly acidic concretions. Life is virtually absent from the site....
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Claude Lorius encountered his destiny at age 23 in the Antarctic. The film retraces his life's journey, from his first steps as a young glaciologist to the crowning moment of his glittering career, winning the Blue Planet Prize.
12) Big Pacific
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow the journey of the Israeli SpaceIL spacecraft as it attempts to become the first privately-funded vehicle to make a lunar landing. Interviews with the founders, engineers, and space experts interwoven with actual sequences and graphics chart the science, passion, and determination needed in this new moonshot.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is a mission that might prove impossible. In the fall of 2020, a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx attempts to reach out and grab a piece of an asteroid named Bennu and bring it back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx team has just three chances to extend its spacecraft's specialized arm, touch down for five seconds, and collect material from the surface of Bennu. Can they pull it off? NOVA takes you inside the mission as the team plans its approach.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (666 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After following Commander Michael Burnham into a wormhole, the U.S.S. Discovery lands in an unrecognizable world 1,000 years in the future. With Starfleet and the Federation on the brink of collapse due to a catastrophic event known as The Burn, the Discovery crew, with the help of new and mysterious allies Book and Adira, must uncover what caused The Burn and restore hope to the galaxy.
19) Mission to Mars
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
NASA launches a Mars Recovery Mission to investigate and bring back survivors from the first manned mission to Mars which has mysteriously disappeared.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (18 hr. ) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is 2154. The crew of the starship Enterprise, under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer, has been thrown back in time to an alternate version of 1944, where the Nazi expansion has brought German troops onto U.S. soil.
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