Inside the BeppiColombo mission to Mercury
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Journey to the Inner World Meet Emma Bunce, the principal investigator on the Mercury imaging X-ray spectrometer (MIXS), one of the main instruments deployed on BepiColombo, Europe’s first mission to Mercury – the least explored planet of our solar system. Made by Directing and Producing Science and Natural History students at the National Film and Television School. Director Oliver Hill Camera Jason Elliot and Oliver Hill Composer Tessa White One of the first projects students work on during their training on the National Film and Television School Directing and Producing Science and Natural History MFA is ‘Science Documentary: Producing the Science Story’. Working collaboratively, the students must produce a short film based on an interview. Each year, the NFTS works with close supporter The Leverhulme Trust, a national grant-making organisation and major funder of UK science, providing access to Leverhulme funded researchers. Learn how you can make science and natural history programmes with industry-standard training from the NFTS: nfts.co.uk/snh