The Solar System: Outer Gas Planets

Retracing the Voyager spacecrafts’ journeys, visit the distant, gaseous planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the many rings and moons newly discovered on these incredible flybys. Viewers will be swept along by dazzling images from live-action and computer-generated filming. Some of the large moons have volcanoes or icy mantles as impressive as the planets’. The program concludes with speculations about future visits to Pluto and Mars and what may be learned from them. Throughout the voyage, the wonder of Earth’s neighborhood never fails to astonish.