News from Space. Patrick Moore is joined by Dr. Paul Murdin to discuss this year's new developments. Including the results of the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the discovery of a new comet.
A new all-sky radio survey is to be started by the Jodrell Bank Telescope in England and the Parkes Observatory in Australia. Dr Alan Wright joins Patrick Moore to explain what it hopes to achieve.
Small telescopes have revealed hitherto-unknown details of the surfaces of giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. Also featured are maps of Pluto obtained from observations by the Hubble Space Telescope.
IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite), which operated for much of 1983, provided information on the presence of cool, possibly planet forming, material around stars like Vega. ISO (Infrared Space Observatory) is now performing well.
Recent meteorite findings in Antarctica, thought to have come from Mars, contained possible traces of primitive life forms. Dr Peter Cattermole, NASA scientist, helps describe the latest findings.
Professor Garry Hunt joins Patrick Moore to discuss the latest findings of the spacecraft Galileo, which is now orbiting the giant planet Jupiter and surveying its four very different satellite worlds, the Galileans.
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