A Traveler's Guide to the Planets

2010 TV-G 45m 7.9

A travel guide to the very alien planets of our Solar System.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave Earth? To lose sight of our home planet and go where no human has gone before? In 2010, blast-off with A Traveler's Guide to the Planets: a 6 x 50 minute documentary series exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of travel to the very alien planets of our own Solar System. What strange sights await you? What dangers must you avoid? A Traveler's Guide to the Planets visits the planets from two very personal perspectives: the direct experience of the people who have sent probes hurtling to all our cosmic neighbors now, and the viewpoint of any one of us who might dream of making a trip ourselves. Take a ringside seat to the splendors of the Solar System with A Traveler's Guide the Planets: an astronaut's guide to whole new worlds of possibility.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Jupiter

1. Jupiter

Aired: Feb 14, 2010

Have you ever thought of blasting off to the King of the Planets? For a truly...

Episode 2 Saturn

2. Saturn

Aired: Feb 14, 2010

Take a trip to Saturn, the planetary pin-up boy, and not only do you get a ri...

Episode 3 Venus & Mercury

3. Venus & Mercury

Aired: Feb 15, 2010

A Traveler's Guide to the Planets takes you on a tour into the Solar System's...

Episode 4 Mars

4. Mars

Aired: Feb 15, 2010

Mars is the ruby jewel in our night sky and arguably the hottest travel desti...

Episode 5 Neptune & Uranus

5. Neptune & Uranus

Aired:

Got time for a 24 year vacation? Then consider a journey to our most distant ...

Episode 6 Pluto & Beyond

6. Pluto & Beyond

Aired: Feb 16, 2010

For more than 70 years Pluto was counted as the ninth planet, an isolated but...


Info about A Traveler's Guide to the Planets

Current Status: Ended

Network: National Geographic

Genres: Documentary