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Voyager To Uranus

Patrick Moore is joined by the leading NASA experts to give the latest news and pictures of what Voyager 2 has to tell us about this mysterious green world of Uranus. (1986)

The Voyager 2 probe bypassed the planet Uranus on 24 January 1986. Though discovered in 1781, not much had been found out about Uranus - in many ways a mysterious world, with a strange axial tilt and a system of dark rings.

Patrick Moore is at the space headquarters in Pasadena, California for the encounter, and in this programme he is joined by leading NASA experts to give the latest news and pictures of what Voyager 2 has to tell us about this mysterious green world. (1986)

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four Planetary Flybys Collection

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four Planetary Flybys Collection
Celebrating The Sky At Night's 750th episode, this Collection features archive programmes from the series, all taking a look back at planetary flybys.

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Programmes are selected, in part, for their historical context and reflect the broadcast standards and attitudes of their time, which may not accord to some current Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ editorial guidelines. We aim to select programmes which can be shown in their entirety but in some cases edits are required.

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Presenter Patrick Moore
Producer Pieter Morpurgo
Editor Derek Orman
Sound Brian Strugnell
Participant Martin Matthewson

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