From NatGeo, A Travelers Guide to the Planets

A Travelers Guide to the Planets. National Geographic is premiering a new series starting Sunday night at 9 pm (Feb. 14^th).  Kind of like a mini-series because the shows are going to run on three consecutive nights, two shows each night. See here.

I was lucky enough to be able to watch the first two:  Saturn and Jupiter.  Each show is an hour and I found them to be very entertaining.

According to the schedule they are going to start with Saturn and they give a great summary of the Cassini mission and include some of the most recent findings so it’s very up to date.

If it were me, I’d have started with the Jupiter episode only because they talk a bit about the planet’s interior and the massive pressures and temperatures involved and referenced that in the Saturn episode.  No matter.

Marian recently did a post about the possibility of life on Europa and of course that is covered in the Jupiter episode.  It kind of sounded to me, or they made it sound, the more likely place to start looking would be Enceladus because all the building blocks are there and open and free for the taking.

Check your local listings and record them if you have to.  I think you will like them, I did.  Oh and the Mercury episode looks to be GREAT!  Lights on the night side?  Who knew?  The preview is on the link above.