Series synopsis
A Field Guide to the Planets is an American drama television series that premiered on November 8, 2019.
Get to know your planets with help from Professor Sabine Stanley's thrilling ride of discovery, illustrated by the phenomenal images NASA has gathered through its telescopes, cameras, and laboratories on Earth and among the stars. A Field Guide to the Planets offers a fuller picture of what scientists know about our solar system - and how much there is yet to learn.
Premise
Get to know your planets with help from Professor Sabine Stanley's thrilling ride of discovery, illustrated by the phenomenal images NASA has gathered through its telescopes, cameras, and laboratories on Earth and among the stars. A Field Guide to the Planets offers a fuller picture of what scientists know about our solar system - and how much there is yet to learn.
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 13 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 13 | November 8, 2019 | November 8, 2019 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
How the Solar System Family Is Organized Since 1962, robots have been exploring our solar system to help answer this most important question: Who are we? With fascinating data and images now in hand, explore this family album overview of our planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, Kuiper Belt objects, and long-period comets, and fly through some of our solar system’s most unique features! |
November 8, 2019 |
| 2 |
Mercury, The Extreme Little Planet Mercury is a planet of many solar system extremes; learning how these characteristics result in a planet where the Sun sometimes moves backward across the sky; a planet where water ice has been found at the poles. |
November 8, 2019 |
| 3 |
Venus, The Veiled Greenhouse Planet The Venusian carbon dioxide atmosphere causes the hottest surface temperature in the solar system; the Earth and Venus contain about the same amount of carbon; the forces that result in the extreme atmospheric differences between these two planets. |
November 8, 2019 |
Production
Release
| First aired | November 8, 2019 |
|---|---|
| Last aired | November 8, 2019 |
| Status | continue |