The joint ESA/NASA mission Ulysses was launched by the American shuttle Discovery on October 6th, 1990 (STS-41). This video index covers base material concerning Ulysses and its mission to explore the poles of the sun. Sequences are organised as follows: ""Ulysses is coming"", a short music clip;
graphic portrayal of Ulysses as a spin-stabilized deep space probe; Ulysses circumnavigates the poles of the Sun; Ulysses leaves the elliptic plane, using Jupiter's gravitational field as a slingshot; various clips of Ulysses' manufacture; an American shuttle launch, animation to illustrate payload deployment; various footage of the Sun, from the Earth and from space; the poles of the Sun are different to other regions- Sun diagram, photograph of Sun's north pole; heliosphere diagram, with temperature distribution annotations; magnetic map, x-ray map, radio map and astronomical footage to illustrate the influence of coronal holes on the solar wind; diagram of earth's magnetic field to illustrate how it acts like a huge