Space science: past and future
ESA TV News Special Ministerial
Format A-roll 4:3; B-roll: Herschel footage 16:9 and Planck footage 4:3
Europe's space ministers will be meeting in the Hague on 25 and 26 November.
Space science, the mandatory core of the European Space Agency's activities, will be one of topics on the agenda.
ESA science missions have, over the past decades, marked history with many major scientific discoveries and publicly-acclaimed marking events.
This A and B-roll evokes, with David Southwood, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, all of ESA past and present missions and the Cosmic Vision programme which is planning future ones.
The B-roll also includes new 3D animations of the Herschel- Planck spacecraft due to be launched next year.
This video story is the first of a serie presenting the new perspectives of Europe in Space at stake at this November Ministerial Conference.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under :
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ESA Science, past and future
A-Roll start 01:30:00
01:40:00 The setting Sun is but one of the marvels of our existence. It marks the rhythm of our lives, a cycle of light and warmth. But around and beyond our star, the Universe can be colder, often violent and obscure. It is this unknown that space science has set out to explore, reaching today a defining moment.
01:02:03 Clip David Southwood, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration ""This is the stage beyond just drawing a rough map of where we are. We're in the true exploratory era, the surveying of the new territories. No longer is it 'gee-whizz, we're up thereí, it's now where are we? what are we? how does it reflect to us back on Earth?"" 01:02:26 Since the very first satellites carrying science instruments, understanding the cosmos has much improved. Our star the Sun, for instance, has today been delved to its very core, observed continuously and from all directions by the joint ESA and NASA probes, Ulysses and SOHO.
01:02:49 The planets of the