The Sky at Night
Season 30 Episode 13 - The Galilean Moons
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
Jupiter is now prominently visible in the evening sky. Any telescope will show it together with its four large satellites, known as the Galileans because they were studied in 1610 by Galileo with his first telescope. They are not alike; two are icy and cratered, one smooth as a billiard ball, and one brilliant red, with violently active volcanoes. Patrick Moore talks about the Galileans, and what we have learned about them from space missions.
Episodes in Season 30
1
Our Nearest Star
2
Voyager to Uranus
3
Halley's Comet: The Encounter
4
The Spring Sky
5
The Story of Satum
6
Halley - The End of the Tale?
7
The Summer Sky
8
The Death of a Star
9
The Innermost Planet
10
The Furthest Depths of the Universe
11
The Autumn Sky
12
Cosmic Lawn Sprinkler
13
The Galilean Moons
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