Video News Release (B-roll): La Silla Observatory (eso0915j)

The discovery of planet “e”, about twice the mass of the Earth, and “d”, where liquid water could exist, is the outcome of more than four years of observations using the most successful low-mass exoplanet hunter in the world, the HARPS spectrograph. HARPS is mounted on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. La Silla, ESO’s first observatory, is also hosting other medium-sized telescopes such as the 3.5m New Technology Telescope, and the 2.2m ESO/MPG telescope, as well as several smaller systems.

This Video News Release is targeted especially at broadcasters for further editing. In order to keep the audio tracks editable, different sound information has been recorded on two separate tracks at optimal volumes as is common standard in professional post production. This video is not meant for on screen viewing — on ESOcasts are better suited for that.

Credit:

ESO

About the Video

Id:eso0915j
Release date:21 April 2009
Related releases:eso0915
Duration:02 m 09 s
Frame rate:30 fps

About the Object


HD


Large

Large QT
34.1 MB

Medium

Video Podcast
24.6 MB
Medium MPEG-1
55.2 MB
Medium Flash
28.4 MB

Small

Small Flash
11.1 MB
Small QT
8.9 MB

For Broadcasters