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Herschel Planck VNR - Probing the Universe as never before
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- Title Herschel Planck VNR - Probing the Universe as never before
- Released: 21/04/2009
- Language English
- Footage Type
- Copyright ESA
- Description
Herschel - Planck VNR
""Herschel and Planck, probing the Universe as never before""
Format 16:9
An Ariane 5 rocket will be lifting off soon from Kourou with the Herschel and Planck observatories, together the most important space science programme that the European Space Agency will have ever launched. The Herschel space telescope will be opening a new window on the Universe at far-infrared and submillimeter wavelengths; Planck for its part will be studying the Cosmic Microwave Background, a fossil radiation relic of the Big Bang. Scientists expect great advances in our knowledge of how stars and galaxies are born, and a greater understanding of the evolution of the Universe.
The A-Roll details the Herschel and Planck objectives. The B-roll features new 3D animations showing the successive phases of the Arianespace launch and illustrating the scientific objectives of this mission. The MPEG-2 file includes also interviews (in English and German) with Thomas Passvogel, the Project Manager of the two missions, aHerschel and Planck, probing the Universe as never before
A-roll start : 10:01:00
10:01:40
The two observatories paired under the Ariane fairing together constitute a joint programme that has taken over ten years to develop. It is the most valuable space science payload that Europe will have ever launched.
10:01:55
Riding at the summit is Herschel, at over 7 metres in height the biggest of the two spacecraft. With its 3.5 metre primary mirror, the largest telescope ever put in space, and with its three far-infrared and sub-millimetre super-cooled instruments, it will investigate the cold invisible Universe and notably how stars and galaxies form and how they evolve.
10:02:21
To the naked eye, our local Universe can sparkle with intense colours. In the Milky Way, for instance, the Carina Nebula offers a profusion of visible activity, stellar nurseries, dying stars and swirling clouds of matter.
10:02:36
Slightly re-point an optical telescope in this same region of the Southern Cross and you will distinguish a
- Length 00:07:00
- Format DIGITAL BETA
- Commercial Use No
- Author Martin Ransom
- Producer Ingrid van de Vyver
- Executive World Wide Pictures