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
Top Image:
160 x 90 JPG (4 KB)
640 x 480 JPG (29 KB)
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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