This program is the pinnacle of a multi-decade quest. It is the journey of two tethered beings in the deepest reaches of space. It is the story of Rosetta and Philae – a spacecraft and her lander, both on a daring and historic journey to visit and land on a comet, sending back to Earth, clues to life’s beginnings.
Producers: Exploration Production Inc.
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Stunts
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – takes a look at the invigorating world of stunts.
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Inventors III
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – looks at the creativity found in the world of science and nature.
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Garden
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – flexes its green thumb when we survey the science found in garden
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Water III
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – takes another swim into the world of water.
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Bugs
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – crawls into the miniature world of bugs.
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Sports
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – swims, kayaks, and surfs as we look at the world of sports.
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Stardust Mission: Catching the Comet
NASA walks on the Wild side – literally. This mission to the comet named Wild 2 is a seven year saga designed to scoop up a canister full of comet dust and return it safely to earth. This one-hour special follows the preparations to collect the dust, retrieve the canister and test its contents. The show also investigates the technology used to scoop up comet dust in space. Not just any dust, theses specks are presumed to hold some of the secrets to life here on earth.
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Panic in the Ring of Fire
Panic In the Ring of Fire, a one-hour “in the moment” special that captures the panic, confusion, overwhelming force and destruction in Indonesia as it was rocked by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in the early morning of Saturday May 27, 2006. Captured in vivid High Definition, this special features immediate, exclusive first-person accounts from Discovery Channel producer Elliott Shiff and other survivors, plus interviews from seismologists and volcanologists to explain and offer context on this earthquake that has claimed more than 5,000 lives to date.
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Hunt For A Super Comet
This Discovery Channel Canada Special Presentation chronicles the journey of Comet ISON, an incredible relic from the outer solar system that has just ended its perilous journey towards the sun, where it met a deadly fate, leaving behind decades worth of unprecedented science.
Hunt for a Super Comet will take viewers on a dramatic journey from Comet ISON’s beginnings to its eventual demise.
We track this super comet with the world’s leading experts as they race against time, using the latest in technology and space science to launch balloon missions, sounding rockets; airborne observatories and assets on other planets to hunt for this super comet. It is hosted by Daily Planet’s Dan Riskin, on location at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.