The year 2003 will see the launch of three major ESA Science missions: The Rosetta probe to land on comet Wirtanen, the Smart-1 technology mission using solar pwer to fly to the Moon, and the Mars Express mission to look for traces of water and life on Mars.
The programme compises of a 5-minute A-Roll with split track and commentary and is complemented by a B-Roll with clean international sound.

SCIENCE PREVIEW 2003
A-ROLL
SCRIPT
00:40
2003 will be a busy year for ESA. They are called Rosetta, Mars Express, Bepi Colombo, all names of missions planed by the European Space Agency to help for a better understanding of the surroundings of our planet.
00:55
In January 2003 the world will watch to Kourou when an Ariane 5 will start the most important mission in cometary astronomy ever developed. Comets originated together with the Sun and planets, but in contrast to those they have not changed since. Therefore they carry a message from the time the planetary system was formed, 4,5 billion years ago. The prime scientific objective of the Rosetta probe is to study the origin of comets, the relationship between cometary and interstellar material and its implications with regard to the origin of the Solar System.
01:31
After a trip of eight years Rosetta will reach its target: comet Wirtanen, orbit around this chunk of matter during two years, and attempt to realize the first soft landing on a cosm