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Under the Sun's Influence - Studying the sun to understand the earth
- Video Tape only
- Title Under the Sun's Influence - Studying the sun to understand the earth
- Released: 21/10/2008
- Language English
- Footage Type
- Copyright ESA
- Description
Studying the sun to understand the earth
ESA TV News
For over 40 years, spacecraft have been studying our Sun, providing great insights into how our star functions and influences our planet Earth. New missions are being planned.
This A & B-Roll includes interviews with solar scientists with ESAs former Director of Science Roger-Maurice Bonnet who helped launch several missions to study the Sun. It also features animations of the Suns coronal ejections, of the Ulysses and SOHO spacecraft and example's of SOHO's spectacular imagery.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under :
http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS59759.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under : http://esa.contentcoders.com/mphi/UNDER_SUN_INFLUENCE_TV_21-10-08_wmplow.wmv
More backgroud information can be found on: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120373_index_0_m.htmlUnder the Sunís Influence
Start A-Roll ñ 01:00:00
01:01:40
Since antiquity the Sun has always been a focal point of astronomy. It is our star that governs life on Earth. This ball of gas is a thermonuclear powerhouse, transforming hydrogen into helium, and radiating light and energetic particles out into space.
01:02:01Clip Rudolf von Steiger, Director International Space Science Institute, Berne
""The Sunís atmosphere at times accumulates bubbles which like balloons are released every now and then. These coronal mass ejections are bubbles of a huge amount of solar plasma and these are released into interplanetary space, accelerated by the solar wind coming behind it and most of them miss the Earth but some of them hit the Earth and when they hit the Earth, the Earthís magnetosphere really gets into a turbulent and messed up state.""
01:02:40
Understanding the inside of this giant furnace, its sunspots activity, and varying magnetic polarity over an eleven-year cycle, remain a prime consideration for us all, an
- Length 14:35:00
- Format DIGITAL BETA
- Commercial Use No
- Producer Ingrid Van de Vijver
- Executive World Wide Pictures