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NOVA: The Planets

NOVA: The Planets

The life of our solar system told in five dramatic stories spanning billions of years.

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StatusEnded
Original NameNOVA: The Planets
First Air DateJuly 25, 2019
Last Air DateAugust 14, 2019
Seasons1
Episodes5
Episode Runtime 0min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production Countries
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NetworksPBS
S01E05

Ice Worlds

Over a billion miles from the sun, beyond the rocky inner planets and the gas giants, lie the ice words—Uranus and Neptune. NOVA takes you inside the missions that rewrote the story of the outer solar system: NASA’s Voyager 1 & 2 capture Neptune’s supersonic winds, and rings around a tipped-over Uranus. And when New Horizons flies by Pluto in 2015, it reveals jagged ice mountains and an underground ocean.

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