Secrets of the Sun

Name: Secrets of the Sun
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-04-24
Duration: 54 min
Cast: Lance Lewman, Holly Gilbert, Bill Murtagh, Jim Green, Todd Hoeksema

It accounts for 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system, while shedding hot plasma at nearly a million miles per hour. Its core temperature reaches a staggering 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It convulses, it blazes, it sings. You know it as the Sun. To scientists, it stands as one of the universe's most astonishing physics laboratories.

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Duncan Copp

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Cast & Crew

Lance Lewman

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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

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

Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Duncan Copp

Sarah Gibson

Herself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory

Details

GenresDocumentary

Runtime54 mins

Released on24 Apr 2012

Languageen

Produced InUnited States of America