Wonders of the Solar System 31 March 2011, the series won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in documentary film-making. The first episode illustrates how the formation and behaviour of the Sun affects each planet in the Solar System. During this episode, Cox visits India to view and explain the workings of a total solar eclipse and the partial eclipses that occur on other planets. He travels to the Iguazu Falls to relate the causality between river levels, and sunspot fluctuations. An explanation of the Earth's exposure to the power of the Sun occurs in Death Valley, California, US, with an experiment inspired
One of Our Planets Is Missing One of Our Planets Is Missing "One of Our Planets Is Missing" is the third episode of the first season of the animated American science fiction television series "". It first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup on September 22, 1973, and was written by veteran "" director Marc Daniels. In this episode, the "Enterprise" must contend with a massive space cloud that eats planets, now targeting a Federation colony of over 82 million. On stardate 5371.3, the "Enterprise" encounters a giant cloud that consumes planets that lie in its path. They determine it is heading for Mantilles, home