- Title: The Planets: Venus And Mercury
- Date: 2nd August 1989
- Summary: WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE SIMULTANEOUSLY ROASTED, CRUSHED, CORRODED AND SUFFOCATED? AS HEATHER COUPER DISCOVERS IN TODAY'S PROGRAMME, THIS IS THE FATE THAT AWAITS SPACEFARERS VISITING THE MOST HELLISH PLANET OF ALL - VENUS. HEATHER PEELS AWAY VENUS' CLOUDS TO REVEAL AN INFERNO OF A PLANET, WITH ACID RAIN AND AN ATMOSPHERE OF CHOKING GAS. DOES VENUS' PRESENT STATE HAVE LESSONS FOR US ON EARTH? EN ROUTE, HEATHER TAKES IN MERCURY, THE CLOSEST PLANET TO THE SUN - AND UNTIL RECENTLY, THE MOST MYSTERIOUS. PUNY THOUGH MERCURY IS, IT HAS MANAGED TO WITHSTAND A VICIOUS BOMBARDMENT FROM SPACE.
- Description:THE PLANETS IS A SERIES OF PROGRAMMES ABOUT THE SUN'S FAMILY - OUR LOCALNEIGHBOURHOOD IN SPACE. AIMED AT ANYONE OVER TEN,THE PROGRAMMES PUT EACHPLANET IN PERSPECTIVE - HISTORICALLY,CULTURALLY,AND SCIENTIFICALLY.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Moving Picture Company
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:02/08/1989
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1980s