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Travellers tales

Host Carl Sagan visits NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he uses images recorded by Voyager II to explain how data is transmitted and processed. Dr. Sagan also contrasts space exploration in the twentieth century with exploration in seventeenth-century Holland and the achievements of Christiaan Huygens.

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  • "Backbone of night"
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  • "Host Carl Sagan visits NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he uses images recorded by Voyager II to explain how data is transmitted and processed. Dr. Sagan also contrasts space exploration in the twentieth century with exploration in seventeenth-century Holland and the achievements of Christiaan Huygens."@en
  • "Traveller's tales : A visit with Dr. Carl Sagan and his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena who are involved with the Voyager II exploratory mission to the environs of Jupiter and its satellites; contrasts 20th century space exploration with that in 17th century Holland and the achievements of Christiaan Huygens."
  • "Dr. Sagan and his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory illustrate the explanation of how data is transmitted and processed by using actual Voyager II images of the planet Jupiter. Also, comparisons are made between 20th century exploration and techniques used in l7th century Holland by Christiaan Huygens."
  • "A visit with Dr. Carl Sagan and his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena who are involved with the Voyager II exploratory mission to the environs of Jupiter and its satellites; contrasts 20th century space exploration with that in 17th century Holland and the achievements of Christiaan Huygens."@en
  • "At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, we visit Dr. Sagan and his colleagues who are in the midst of conducting an exploratory mission, the Voyagers II's close encounter with Jupiter and its satellites. Actual Voyager images illustrate the explanation of how data is transmitted and processed, and the nature of the Jovian system. Space exploration in the 20th century is contrasted with exploration in 17th century Holland and the achievements of Christiaan Huygens."@en
  • "Carl Sagan explores the red planet, Mars, from its coverage in literature through the visits of the Viking spacecraft."@en
  • "Backbone of night: Host Carl Sagan describes the scientific innovations of ancient Ionian physicists, their theories on the nature of air, atoms, and the stars, and the ultimate decline of science as a structured body of knowledge in the wake of Pythagorean and platonic mysticism."
  • "At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, we visit Dr. Sagan and his colleagues who are in the midst of conducting an exploratory mission, the Voyager II's close encounter with Jupiter and its satellites. Actual Voyager images illustrate the explanation of how data is transmitted and processed, and the nature of the Jovian system. Space exploration in the 20th Century is contrasted with exploration in 17th Century Holland and the achievements of Christiaan Huygens."@en
  • "Carl Sagan describes the development in science that enables us to explore the earth and the vast universe, and takes us on a spaceship of the imagination around the solar system."@en
  • "Carl Sagan describes the development in science that enables us to explore the earth and the vast universe, and takes us on a spaceship of the imagination around the solar system. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, we visit Dr. Sagan and his colleagues who are in the midst of conducting an exploratory mission, the Voyager's encounter with Jupiter and its satellites."
  • "Host Carl Sagan discusses travel ranging from a sailing ship voyage to travel through the solar system and on to interstellar space."@en
  • "[Volume] VI : A visit with Dr. Carl Sagan and his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena who are involved with the Voyager II exploratory mission to the environs of Jupiter and its satellites; contrasts 20th century space exploration with that in 17th century Holland and the achievements of Christiaan Huygens. [Volume] VII : Host Carl Sagan describes the scientific innovations of ancient Ionian physicists, their theories on the nature of air, atoms, and the stars, and the ultimate decline of science as a structured body of knowledge in the wake of Pythagorean and platonic mysticism."

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