Campaign to broadcast the first advertisement into space

A campaign to broadcast the first advertisement into space has just got underway with the University of Leicester (U-L) space scientists playing a key part in the process.

The best 30-second advertisement about how life on earth is perceived, out of the many to be created by the public as part of national competition, will be beamed into the outermost reaches of space, a university release said.

A 500 MHz ultra high frequency radar from the EISCAT Space Centre in Svalbard will telecast the winning advertisement June 12. The radar lies in the Arctic Ocean midway between northern Norway and the North Pole.

The transmission is being directed at a solar system just 42 light years away from Earth with planets that orbit its star '47 Ursae Majoris' (UMa).

UMa is located in the Great Bear Constellation (also known as 'The Plough') - easily identifiable to even the most amateur stargazer.

Source: malaysiasun.com