| Voyage to the Mystery Moon Saturn: Mysterious, hauntingly beautiful; a swirling ball of gas, embraced by heavenly rings that span over 150,000 miles, circled by more than 40 moons in dizzying orbits; so distant, going ther could only be a dream, until now. NOVA/PBS |
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| Deadly Ascent In an exploration of extreme medical science, a team of scientists ascends Alaska's Mount McKinley to try to solve the mystery of high altitude deaths on one of the most dangerous mountains on earth, also known as Denali. NOVA/PBS |
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| The Perfect Corpse Irish legends celebrate the Celts as an ancient mystical society, ruled by warrior kings, queens and druid priests. But the Celts had no writing and their oral traditions were written down. The manuscripts tell of heroic struggles between rival warriors and gods, yet the bodies tell a darker tale of torture, beheadings and human sacrifice. NOVA/PBS |
| Volcano Under the City A team of scientists trek into an active volcano. Their mission is to retrieve a lava sample to help forcast the next eruption. Time is of the essence, for they fear the next time it explodes, it could erupt beneath the nearby city of more than half a million people. NOVA/PBS |
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| The Viking Deception In 1492, Columbus discovered America and for nearly 500 years there could be no fact more certain. Then, on the eve of Columbus Day, 1965, a mysterious map changed history forever. It proclaimed the Vikings discovered America, and experts dated it to half a century before Columbus' famous voyage. But is the Vinland Map real? NOVA/PBS |
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| Supersonic Dream You've got business class and then you have first class. And then you have class. And that's what you had on a Concorde. During it's thirty-three years of flight, the Concorde captured the envy, the wonder and the ire of the entire world. Supersonic Dream is the amazing true story behind the world's first commercial supersonic airliner. NOVA/PBS |
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| The Boldest Hoax For decades, a fossil skull discovered in Piltdown, England, was hailed as the missing link between apes and humans. Then in 1953, the awful truth came out: "Piltdown Man" was a fake! But who did it? Under suspicion are some of the most distinguishing scientists and citizens at the time -- including Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. NOVA/PBS |
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