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The Planets
2019 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Professor Brian Cox explores the dramatic lives of the eight majestic planets/worlds that make up our solar system.
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I thought they did a really good job in the NOVA The Planets miniseries as well:
https://www.pbs.org/video/cassini-spacecraft-final-moments/
which is in general full of some pretty excellent simulations, arranged very aesthetically
I would hope in any future scenario we'd avoid burning a living world like the Earth and instead harvest resources from a dead planet like Mercury or Venus.
That said, seems the Earth was once inhospitable around the time Venus was 'alive'. Good documentary which lends weight to what you said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p07922lr/the-planets
The BBC series The Planets had an episode showing the 3d physical Mars map you describe. Jump to the 9:45 mark in this video to see it and some discussion of the canyon discussed in the article:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7szrj4
You may be interested in watching The Planets (2019). It's a entertaining summary of space exploration/theories of the last two decades, and it talks about Mars and Venus (including the atmospheric loss theory on Mars versus Venus retaining an atmosphere) for an episode.
Russia got the first probe on Venus, so maybe it’s success being celebrated and reinforcing more interest.
I just saw an episode of the new BBC series Planets talking about this. One thing they mentioned was that it was seriously suggested even in the 40’s that there could be rainforests and a fertile surface underneath the cloud cover on Venus. Could see the mystery in particular being an interesting thing to grow up hearing about.
> At this time, they wouldn't know what the best instruments to send would be.
There's an interesting BBC documentary series on the planets, called The Planets, that has an episode covering the Voyager probes. They had to do some quick redesigns on them after Pioneer 10 and 11 visited the outer planets and found fun stuff like radiation and unexpected rings. They said that if they hadn't had the earlier probes, Voyager would have been fried when it got to the system.