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Oceans and satellites / ESA TV Exchange - format 16:9 / 24-11-2009
23 November 2009
European Space Agency
Oceans and space are two dimensions still largely unknown which represent both our origins and future. In his new movie "Oceans" French filmmaker Jacques Perrin teamed up with the European Space Agency to reveal the deepest secrets of the big blue: from the beauty of its creatures to mankind destruction of it.
Three quarters of the earth's surface is covered with water and thanks to satellites, that Jacques Perrin calls the "divine balcony", we now have a better understanding of the oceans that could help manage climate changes affecting our planet. Indeed space truly plays a key part in the "Oceans"!
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under :
http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS66828.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under :
http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/ESA_OCEANS_TV_11-20-09_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, from the EbS Web site at http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/ebs/schedule..cfm
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/Protecting.html.