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Corot VNR - Corot in search of Rocky Planets
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- Title Corot VNR - Corot in search of Rocky Planets
- Released: 14/12/2006
- Language English
- Footage Type
- Copyright ESA
- Description
Searching for rocky planets outside our Solar System, COROT is an important stepping stone in the European effort to find habitable, Earth-like planets around other stars.
Developed by the French Space Agency CNES with a major contribution by Europe, COROT will be launched on 27 December from Baikonur on a Soyuz launcher.
This VNR includes all images required to cover the story ahead of the launch, including English language soundbites by ESA's COROT Project Scientist, Malcom Fridlund.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS50182.pdf
ESA will also provide coverage of the COROT launch, on 27 December 2006 at 14:23 GMT.COROT in search of rocky planets
A-Roll
00:00:40 For more than a decade, the SOHO mission has provided great insights into our Sun: its dark spots, massive flares, and the quakes on the surface which betray the inner composition. Astronomers have been eager to extend its pioneering techniques to other stars.
00:01:58 The COROT spacecraft, standing for 'Convection Rotation and planetary Transits', will learn much more about the interior of stars, and it will be breaking new ground in the search for distant worlds outside our solar system.
00:02:13 Since the discovery in 1995 of the first extra-solar planet, more than 200 have been identified using ground-based telescopes.
00:02:23 Clip Malcolm Fridlund, ESA project scientist COROT ""The planets that weíve found so far are gas giants, more akin to Jupiter in our system. COROT is the first space mission, and the first mission ever that is looking for planets like our own Earth or something similar."" 00:02:36 The 670 kilogramme s
- Length 13:44:00
- Format BETACAM
- Commercial Use No
- Producer Ingrid van de Vijver
- Executive World Wide Pictures