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COBE Highlights

Archive video segments from a 1999 Highlight tape on the COsmic Background Explorer Mission (COBE). COBE proved there was a CMB signature worth studying, thus paving the way for the WMAP mission.These were produced prior to the COBE lanch in 1989.

Top: The Cosmic Background Explorer
A description of the Cosmic Microwave Bacground and the COBE mission.

Credit: NASA Goddard

Duration: 12:43 minutes

Available formats:
320 x 240 (29.95fps) QT (19.2 MB)
640 x 480 (29.95fps) QT -Available

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Bottom: The Beginning
A short documentary overview of Cosmology as it was understood before COBE's launch.

Credit: NASA Goddard

Duration: 13:14 minutes

Available formats:
320 x 240 (29.95fps) QT (20.2 MB)
640 x 480 (29.95fps) QT -Available

Bottom Image:
160 x 90 JPG (2 KB)
640 x 480 JPG (39 KB)

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