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