由众多科学家和工程师研发接近30年的“卡西尼号”太空探测器在经过长达近7年的漫长太空旅行之后，顺利进入环绕土星转动的轨道，开始对土星大气、光环和卫星进行历时4年的科学考察。卡西尼号”还携带了探测土星最大卫星土卫六的探测器，取名为“惠更斯号”。在探测任务20年后，卡西尼号土星探测器燃料将尽，科学家控制其向土星坠毁，在此之后，卡西尼号与地球失去联系，它进入土星大气层燃烧成为土星的一部分。在卡西尼号毁灭的最后一秒钟，它都坚守使命，往地球传输数据，最后才壮烈冲向大气层。
Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC that covers science and philosophy.
The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change. This episode enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are ...
Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the...
In this unique documentary Pope Francis opens the Vatican’s doors to the world, and guides us, with his voice over, discovering his personal and passionate concept of Art: instrument of evangelization and opposition to the culture of transitory. In this extraordinary journey, the audience will have the privilege to admire the eternal beauty of the Vatican Museums, Saint Peter’s...
In March 2018 an international team of scientists gathered in a remote valley in the Canadian Rockies to conduct a unique experiment - to attempt to see into the heart of a massive avalanche to see if we can find ways to save lives in the future. Avalanches kill hundreds of people every year. Even in the UK 25 people have been killed by these forces of nature since the year 200...
创世大爆炸之前是什么样的？答案或许在黑洞中。
Children in Gaza and across the border in Israel have lived through three major conflicts in six years. In the summer of 2014, more than 500 children were killed in a 51-day war, all but one of them Palestinian. Almost every child in Gaza lost a loved one. More than a third were left traumatised. On the Israeli border, children lived in constant fear of rocket attacks and under...
In recent years a groundbreaking new study has been released into the effects of the contraceptive pill. Research from Denmark claimed women on the pill and other forms of hormonal contraception were 70% more likely to be diagnosed with depression than those who were not. And another study has found hormonal contraception was linked to a seemingly dramatic risk of breast cancer...
