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    Ulysses: The Movie

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    • Title Ulysses: The Movie
    • Released: 04/02/2000
    • Length 00:25:39
    • Language English, French, German
    • Footage Type Documentary
    • Copyright ESA
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      A presentation of the cooperative ESA/NASA mission to send a spacecraft out of the elliptic plane and over an unexplored pole of the Sun. No spacecraft has ever ventured so far from the elliptical plane. To do so requires Ulysses to travel first to Jupiter, using the gravitational pull of the giant planet to propel itself towards the southern solar pole. The movie includes:

      00:22 Animation of the Sun

      01:30 Orbital circles around the Sun

      01:48 Near video of sun flairs

      02:11 Views of sun from far away planet

      02:46 View of the Sun from Earth, some views from the Earth

      03:21 Planets orbital circles around the Sun, with Ulysses deep space probe’s path to arrive closer to Sun pole

      04:26 Planets and explanation of how Ulysses will use planets gravitations on it mission

      05:09 Spacecraft building, integration and testing

      05:30 Ulysses spacecraft building

      06:25 Ulysses will be launched by US Space Shuttle (video and animation)

      07:50 Ulysses in space animation

      10:55 Spacecraft ground station control

      11:06 Switch on of Ulysses turns into scientific research instrument, collecting data all the time while travelling in space

      11:47 Ulysses arriving to Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar systems. Jupiter atmosphere, with 16 moons. Jupiter turns once every 10 hours. Ulysses will make detailed measurements of Jupiter.

      13:52 Ground centre

      14:00 Ulysses leaves Jupiter towards the Sun

      14:35 Albert Einstein and his theory

      15:00 Exploiting star

      15:32 Ulysses real objective is the Sun. Images of the Sun and analysis illustration

      15:52 Earth, Jupiter on the same scale with the Sun

      16:20 Sun images and animations

      17:11 Ulysses spacecraft in space

      17:29 Sun corona, and analysis of the corona, solar winds, cosmic particles

      21:26 Ulysses instruments and illustrations of them on the spacecraft

      22:00 Illustration of how Ulysses’ instruments will see the sun, when arriving 4 years after launch

      22:49 Ulysses path towards the sun

      23:00 Sun images and animated illustrations of the Earth millions years ago and how the Sun has affected live on Earth

      24:57 Ulysses spacecraft

      25:13 The end

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    • Activity Space Science
    • Mission Ulysses
    • People Albert Einstein
    • System Space Shuttle Discovery
    • Action Animating, Approaching, Assembling, Building, Controlling, Deorbit burning, Developing, Encounter, Exploring, Flying, Imaging, Integrating, Investigating, Launching, Measuring, Mission planning, Observing, Orbiting, Picturing, Testing, Zooming in
    • Keywords Cosmic rays, Instrument, Instruments onboard, Jupiter, Jupiter's moon, Solar and Planetary, Solar atmosphere, Solar energy, Solar eruptions, Solar flares, Solar particles, Solar pole, Solar system, Solar wind, Sun, Sunspots Surface features

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