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Secrets of the Sun

9.0/10

April 24, 2012

54 minutes

Duncan Copp

Documentary

Overview

It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is a staggering 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It convulses, it blazes, it sings. You know it as the sun. Scientists know it as one of the most amazing physics laboratories in the universe.

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Movie Details

Release Date

April 24, 2012

Runtime

54 minutes

Director

Duncan Copp

Rating

9.0/10

Cast

Lance Lewman

Narrator

Holly Gilbert

Herself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Bill Murtagh

Himself - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Center

Jim Green

Himself - NASA Planetary Science

Todd Hoeksema

Himself - Stanford University

Sarah Gibson

Herself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory

Scott McIntosh

Himself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory

Karel Schrjiver

Himself - Lockheed Martin

W. Dean Pesnell

Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Luc Peterson

Himself - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Phillip Chamberlin