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XMM Campaign Video
- Video Online + Tape
- Title XMM Campaign Video
- Released: 10/12/1999
- Length 00:09:14
- Language English
- Footage Type VNR
- Copyright ESA - European Space Agency
- Description
Rushes of the arrival and launch preparations at Guiana Space Centre, Kourou of ESA's XMM observatory, due for launch by Ariane 504 on December 9th.
This highly-animated series provides a pre-launch background summary of the mission, and is arranged as follows -
AN OBSERVATORY IN SPACE - why we need XMM, what it will do, how it will work; construction of XMM'; a look at the violent Universe
NEWS OF EXPLODED STARS - what forms a supernova, and how XMM will study them
GIANT BLACK HOLES - a description of black holes and XMM's capacity to look at the X-rays they emit.Not available