Story from Rosetta: The Comet Surface / ESA TV Exchanges / 10-12-2002

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

10-Dec-02 10:15 – 10:30 GMT

Story from Rosetta: The Comet Surface

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay I: 10 December, 19:45-20:00 GMT

Replay II: 14 December, 08:00-08:15 GMT

On 13 January 2003, ESA’s Rosetta space probe will be launched on a nine-year voyage to comet Wirtanen. Rosetta will be the first probe to land on a comet. Today’s transmission is the last in a series of five TV Exchanges on Rosetta, and features the investigation of the comet’s surface by the Rosetta orbiter. Most notably, a set of two cameras will during two years observe the changes comet Wirtanen undergoes as it approaches the Sun. The high-resolution images will be showing surface features as small as four centrimetres.

The programme comprises of a 8-minute A-roll with split track and commentary and is complemented by a B-Roll with clean international sound. The script will be available on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS27580.pdf

A Windows Media Player preview of the transmission can be downloaded from http://esa.capcave.com/wmp/rosfin5_13112002_wmplow.wmv

This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/index.

More background information can be found on http://sci.esa.int/rosetta.

Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13? East (DVB/MPEG-2)

Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite)

SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4

For further information, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For other enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.