The Nearest Star

Duration: 1200 Feet

Year Published: 1960

Creator: National Academy of Sciences McGraw-Hill Book Company. WGBH Educational Foundation

Complete Record: Portrays the unique and critical role of the sun in the drama of our own planet. Traces the history of man's study of the sun, and explains how solar towers, rockets, and balloons are used in the study of the sun. Describes the communications system established by the National Bureau of Standards to coordinate work on solar disturbances and their enhanced X radiations and particle streams.