Watch video clips from classic BBC television programmes about the Solar System. The videos cover topics including the planets, moons and astronauts from series such as The Planets, The Sky at Night and Horizon. Coming soon: Content from the radio archive as well as more video clips and topics.
Neptune
Bright blue clouds speed around the outermost planet.
Phoebe
An oddball moon orbits Saturn.
Asteroids
Minor planets orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
Aurora
The solar wind's assault on the Earth can be easily seen.
Mariner programme
Unmanned probes explore the inner Solar System.
Jim Lovell
An American astronaut narrowly escapes death on his fourth space flight.
Robert Hooke
The 17th century English physicist models lunar craters.
The first fully calibrated images from the European Space Agency's Smos satellite have now been released.
It weighs almost a tonne, has cost more than $2bn and, in 2013, it will be lowered on to the surface of Mars with a landing system that has never been tried before.
Scientists say that a meteorite that crashed into Earth 40 years ago contains millions of different carbon-containing, or organic, molecules.
There seems little doubt that Saturn's moon Enceladus hides a large body of liquid water beneath its icy skin.
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