Theme: Journeys Inside the Solar System

This refers to any films concerning journeys within the Solar System with the exception of more popular venues such as The Moon, Mars and Venus, which all get their own separate entries.

Journeys of Space Exploration, while plentiful in genre cinema, have tended to focus on the immediate neighbours Mars and Venus. Mercury and the outer planets have not been visited as much, although there are some examples. The most common destinations are Jupiter and Saturn, each no doubt due to their distinctive looks and features.

One or two films of the 1950s/60s era of Space Exploration featured landings on these worlds but most depictions come adherent with modern known scientific realities. Some films feature explorations and colonisation of Jupiter and Saturn’s moons, while alien objects or artefacts have been known to turn up in their orbits.

The asteroid belt is another locale. There are some films about asteroid mining, although asteroids that appear in genre works are usually ones whose paths are disturbed sending them on a collision course with Earth, along with assorted meteors and comets.

There have been a several works dealing with the discovery of a Counter-Earth – a planet that is in the same orbit as Earth on the opposite side of the sun, where this is frequently (unscientifically) seen as a parallel or mirror Earth. There are also one or two other works dealing with the discovery of a tenth planet.