Christmas greetings from Venus – with a new educational film


A breath of Venus - movie
 
The educational film presented by this trailer illustrates some of the major aspects of the exploration of Venus, all addressed by ESA’s Venus Express mission.

Four scientists, from enchanting locations on Earth, explain Venus’ green-house effect, temperature and talk about the fate of water on our sister planet. One engineer explains the complex job of transforming scientists’ objectives into commands for Venus Express.

(Starring: Jean-Loup Bertaux, Jörn Helbert, Miguel Pérez Ayúcar, Daphne Stam and Colin Wilson, with special collaboration from Federico Nespoli. Soundtrack by: João Luís Lobo. Drawings and paintings by: Patrícia Correia and Cristina Rebelo. Sand Sculpture work by: Wilfred Stijger and Edith van de Wetering).

From here, you can download the film either in four separate chapters, or in its complete form.

Chapters:

Chapter 1:
A breath of Venus (QT), A breath of Venus (WM)
Chapter 2:
A story of Deuterium and Hydrogen (QT), A story of Deuterium and Hydrogen (WM)
Chapter 3:
A question of temperature (QT), A question of temperature (WM)
Chapter 4:
A look at operations (QT), A look at operations (WM)
Credits:
End titles and credits (QT), End titles and credits (WM)

Full movie:

ATTENTION, this is a very large file. Right click on links below and save it to your computer before opening it.

A breath of Venus – Full movie 175 MB (QT), A breath of Venus – Full movie 216 MB (WM)

A breath of Venus
 
This image was extracted from ‘A breath of Venus’, an educational video explaining Venus’ impressive green-house effect, providing glimpses of how volcanism may work at Venus compared to Earth, and illustrate the principles used for such investigations on other planets.

A story of Deuterium and Hydrogen
 
This is a snapshot from ‘A story of Deuterium and Hydrogen’, an educational film in which a scientist walks us through the fate of water on Venus. Was Venus hosting oceans in the past? If yes, where has this water gone now?

A question of temperature
 
This image was extracted from ‘A question of temperature’, an educational film in which a scientist climbs an apple tree and tells us how to calculate the global temperature of a planet. He talks about why planetary temperatures are important for the overall climate balance, related to the green-house effect - the phenomenon at work on both Earth and Venus.

A look at operations
 
This image was extracted from ‘A look at operations’, an educational movie unveiling the secrets behind spacecraft operations. The video and tells us of the complex job engineers have perform to transform the scientists’ objectives into commands for the Venus Express spacecraft.



Release date: 21 February 2008