Secrets of the Sun

Duncan Copp
2012-04-24


9
54 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Lance Lewman Narrator Unowned
Holly Gilbert Herself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Unowned
Bill Murtagh Himself - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Center Unowned
Jim Green Himself - NASA Planetary Science Unowned
Todd Hoeksema Himself - Stanford University Unowned
Sarah Gibson Herself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory Unowned
Scott McIntosh Himself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory Unowned
Karel Schrjiver Himself - Lockheed Martin Unowned
W. Dean Pesnell Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Unowned
Luc Peterson Himself - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Unowned
Phillip Chamberlin Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Unowned