NOVA: The Planets

The life of our solar system told in five dramatic stories spanning billions of years.

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Ended

Original Name

NOVA: The Planets

First Air Date

July 25, 2019

Last Air Date

August 14, 2019

Seasons

1

Episodes

5

Language

English

Production Companies

Networks

PBS

S01E05

Ice Worlds

Over a billion miles from the sun, beyond the rocky inner planets and the gas giants, lie the ice words—Uranus and Neptune. NOVA takes you inside the missions that rewrote the story of the outer solar system: NASA’s Voyager 1 & 2 capture Neptune’s supersonic winds, and rings around a tipped-over Uranus. And when New Horizons flies by Pluto in 2015, it reveals jagged ice mountains and an underground ocean.

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