Short Film 'The Comet' Uses Real Images From ESA's Rosetta Space Probe

Launched in 2004, the ESA's Rosetta space probe spent 10 years flying to the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67p), circled it for two years, and then culminated its mission with a controlled hard landing. Now video artist Christian Stangl and composer Wolfgang Stangl have teamed up to create The Comet, a 3 minute 25 second movie made from digitally-enhanced footage derived from the images the ESA released from the mission. "Watch the beauty of an active alien body, far out in the depths of our solar system."

Syfy Wire calls it "a moving and stunning tribute to this mission... The comet is as alien a place as we have in the solar system."

They also link to the ESA's trippy related video "Ambition" from 2014.

Given The World We Live In...

[dryriver]

... it wouldn't surprise me if some countries already have the advanced propulsion tech to fly to an asteroid, grab it and tow it back to earth without anyone even noticing. By the time we are told the propulsion tech exists, the asteroid will probably have been sitting in a hangar out in some desert for 20 years.

Ambition

[holophrastic]

"Abmbition" -- what a phenomenal film. I'm upset that I didn't know about it until today.

3 minute movie

[wooferhound]

Can you call this 3 minute 26 second film clip, a Movie ?
What was the Plot ?
Looks more like a bad documentary without any narration ? Of course they used actual video of a real comet for this presentation

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

Comet
It makes your mouth turn green
Comet
It tastes like gasoline
Comet
Go get some Comet
Go get some Comet
And vomit
Today

Why so fast?

[cusco]

Why did they have to flip through the imagery so fast? It would have been far better as a 5-8 minute movie.

Re:

[Deep Esophagus]

I came here to make the same complaint. The strobe flash of nonstop jump cuts may be great for ADHD kids on a sugar high, but it takes me more than 0.25 seconds to process visual data. No thanks, I'll just google the ESA original footage.