Season 30 poster

Season 30

(2002)

Cast

Episodes

Killer Disease on Campus poster

Killer Disease on Campus 0.0

September 3, 2002

Doctors combat the deadliest for of meningitis which strikes young people out of the blue.

Mysterious Life of Caves poster

Mysterious Life of Caves 0.0

October 1, 2002

Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.

Lost Roman Treasure poster

Lost Roman Treasure 0.0

October 8, 2002

Experts rescue pricess mosaics from an ancient city that is about to disapear beneath a resivoir.

Galileo's Battle for the Heavens poster

Galileo's Battle for the Heavens 7.0

October 29, 2002

In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church auth…

Volcano's Deadly Warning poster

Volcano's Deadly Warning 0.0

November 12, 2002

In January 1993, six scientists and three hikers were scalded and crushed to death when they ventured into the smoking …

Sinking City of Venice poster

Sinking City of Venice 0.0

November 19, 2002

Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves.

The Orchid Hunter poster

The Orchid Hunter 0.0

November 26, 2002

For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids …

Spies That Fly poster

Spies That Fly 0.0

January 7, 2003

The air war in Afghanistan showed that sometimes the hottest pilots are sitting on the ground operating the remote cont…

Last Flight of Bomber 31 poster

Last Flight of Bomber 31 0.0

January 14, 2003

On March 25, 1944, a U.S. Navy bomber disappeared into the fog over the Bering Sea heading for a Japanese target. Fifty…

Ancient Creature of the Deep poster

Ancient Creature of the Deep 0.0

January 21, 2003

NOVA chronicles the discovery of a "living fossil," a fish called the coelacanth that has remained relatively unchanged…

Battle of the X-Planes poster

Battle of the X-Planes 8.0

February 4, 2003

A behind the scenes look at the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter. Cameras follow engineering teams from Bo…

Mountain of Ice poster

Mountain of Ice 0.0

February 11, 2003

In this high-altitude adventure, Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, and their…

Lost Treasures of Tibet poster

Lost Treasures of Tibet 0.0

February 18, 2003

Before Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Last Supper," Tibetan craftsmen were creating stunning artistry of their deities …

Dirty Bomb poster

Dirty Bomb 0.0

February 25, 2003

"Dirty Bomb" probes the realities and implications for public health policy of a disaster that many consider to be all …

Deep Sea Invasion poster

Deep Sea Invasion 0.0

April 1, 2003

In 1989 marine biologist Alexandre Meinesz went diving off southern France and was stunned by what he saw: a dense blan…

Secret of Photo 51 poster

Secret of Photo 51 10.0

April 15, 2003

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structur…