Nearest Star

Duration: 33

Genre: Educational

Creator: Natl Academy Of Sciences

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Portrays the unique and critical roles of the sun in the drama of our own planet. Explains how solar towers, rockets and balloons are used in the study of the sun and describes the communications system established by the National Bureau of Standards to coordinate work on solar disturbances., Develops through animation, time-lapse, and live-action photography the early concepts of the interrelation of the sun and man, the development of the modern concepts of the place of the sun in the universe, the modern methods of studying the sun, and the ways events on the sun influence the earth and life on it. Pictures studies of the sun using the coronograph, spectroheliograph, rockets, and balloons. Portrays the combined efforts of scientists throughout the world engaged in solar research.

Complete Record: Portrays the unique and critical roles of the sun in the drama of our own planet. Explains how solar towers, rockets and balloons are used in the study of the sun and describes the communications system established by the National Bureau of Standards to coordinate work on solar disturbances., Develops through animation, time-lapse, and live-action photography the early concepts of the interrelation of the sun and man, the development of the modern concepts of the place of the sun in the universe, the modern methods of studying the sun, and the ways events on the sun influence the earth and life on it. Pictures studies of the sun using the coronograph, spectroheliograph, rockets, and balloons. Portrays the combined efforts of scientists throughout the world engaged in solar research.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.