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.
Subjects: General
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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.
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Landing on a Comet: The Rosetta Mission
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.
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Sound
Daily Planet listens in to the world of sound. Listen to the shocking sound of the Zeusaphone, and see how one musician is turning to solar energy to power his instrument.
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Animals IV
Daily Planet takes another foray into the lives of animals. Check out sea-urchins, spiky creatures of the underworld, and find out what it takes to track down a giant panda.
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Art II
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – takes a crafty look at the science of art.
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Explosions
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – blows up with our Explosion special.
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Air
Daily Planet floats, glides, and flies through air. Take a ride on the Red Bull Helicopter, soar through the air on inflatable wings, and much more.
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Robots III
Daily Planet takes a look at the constantly evolving role of robots. From “Human Robots,” to robobutlers, this episode has got the skinny on our future mechanical servants.