Spaceship Earth - TV Show Details

1997 9.0 (6 votes) 4 Seasons

Genres

Documentary

Networks

France 5

Created By

Nicolas Gessner

Spaceship Earth (Spaceship earth)

Overview

An educational series explaining the operation of the solar system using 3D animation. Its 52 episodes provide a week-by-week description of the operation of the solar system.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Stéphane Freiss

Voix off

Seasons

Season 1 (1997)

Spaceship Earth Season 1 (Winter)

11 episodes

Episodes

Episode 1: Week 1: The Journey Begins (New Year)

1997-05-18

Why it is cold when the Earth is closest to the sun. Why we see Venus in the morning. The planets are close, the stars unreachable.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 2: Week 2: Travelling in the Solar System (Early January)

1997-05-18

Day and Night. A gigantic Sun with tiny planets. A look at the Zodiac. The solar system is the present; the stars are the past.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 3: Week 3: The Moon, Our Companion (Mid-January)

1997-05-18

The Sun is on time but the Moon is late. Why we see the Moon as a crescent. The half-moon crosses the Earth's orbit. Where the Moon came from. The Moon: Delay in space and Time.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 4: Week 4: The Full Moon (Late January)

1997-05-18

Discovering Mercury. Distant moons of other planets. Why we always see the same side of the Moon. Why we see the Sun so low but the Moon so high.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 5: Week 5: Earth's Rotation (January/February)

1997-05-18

Earth's Rotation. The Moon shows us where Mars is. Copernicus: The Earth in orbit. Why the Earth turns. Crossing time zones.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 6: Week 6: Copernicus and Kepler (Early February)

1997-05-18

Hidden planets. Kepler discovers the planets' timetable. The Earth moves more quickly in Winter. Earth overtakes Mars. Why we have two tides every day.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 7: Week 7: Gravity (Early/Mid-February)

1997-05-18

Why the Earth is round. Newton's apple. Why the Earth does not fall into the Sun. Three minutes more Sun every day. Sundials and the Earth's axis. Comets.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 8: Week 8: The Stars (Mid-February)

1997-05-18

Columbus and the Pole Star. Earth wobbles over the centuries. The imaginary 'heavenly vault'. The Sun, our star. Infinitely large to infinitely small.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 9: Week 9: The Calendar (Late February)

1997-05-18

Leap Days: The Earth misses a quarter of a day. Gregorian and Orthodox calendars. Solar and lunar calendars. Solid and gaseous planets.

Runtime: 5 min

Episode 10: Week 10: Waning Moon and Solar Eclipses (Early March)

1997-05-18

The half-moon shows where we are going. Where the stars go during the day. The Moon and the planets: The Sun's invisible companions. The Moon's shadow on the Earth: Solar Eclipses.

Runtime: 5 min