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So, fans of space & LEGO (surely a strong overlap in the Venn diagram):
Matt Taylor, project scientist for ESA's Rosetta comet mission, tells me there's a proposed model of Rosetta & Philae on LEGO IDEAS, based on how they looked in the cartoon films we made in 2013-2016 🛰️☄️
It needs community support for a chance of official LEGO adoption, so do your thing (you need to create an account but it only takes a minute).
Please boost 👍
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/affb6092-91aa-4de9-9ceb-21d3926dc283
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So, fans of space & LEGO (surely a strong overlap in the Venn diagram):
Matt Taylor, project scientist for ESA's Rosetta comet mission, tells me there's a proposed model of Rosetta & Philae on LEGO IDEAS, based on how they looked in the cartoon films we made in 2013-2016 🛰️☄️
It needs community support for a chance of official LEGO adoption, so do your thing (you need to create an account but it only takes a minute).
Please boost 👍
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/affb6092-91aa-4de9-9ceb-21d3926dc283
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Ha – was just reminded of this 🙂
At some point in 2016, we made the customary certificates to thank everyone involved in making ESA’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko such a success 🚀🛰️☄️🎉
But given the amazing engagement & support we’d had from people all around the planet, I decided we should make one more 🌍
So this one’s for you – you all did very well, thanks 🙂🙇♂️👏
#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration #Space #RosettaLegacy #LivingWithAComet #Photography
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Ha – was just reminded of this 🙂
At some point in 2016, we made the customary certificates to thank everyone involved in making ESA’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko such a success 🚀🛰️☄️🎉
But given the amazing engagement & support we’d had from people all around the planet, I decided we should make one more 🌍
So this one’s for you – you all did very well, thanks 🙂🙇♂️👏
#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration #Space #RosettaLegacy #LivingWithAComet #Photography
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And finally, my personal favourite, the avionics model of ESA’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with a model of its small Philae lander in the foreground.
The Rosetta model was used by the ops team from launch in March 2014, to arrival at 67P in August 2014, & during comet operations until September 2016.
It now lives in a special display box at ESOC, an emotional memory of perhaps ESA’s greatest ever mission 🚀🛰️☄️🙇♂️
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And finally, my personal favourite, the avionics model of ESA’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with a model of its small Philae lander in the foreground.
The Rosetta model was used by the ops team from launch in March 2014, to arrival at 67P in August 2014, & during comet operations until September 2016.
It now lives in a special display box at ESOC, an emotional memory of perhaps ESA’s greatest ever mission 🚀🛰️☄️🙇♂️
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Took these to Dénia in Spain 🇪🇸, & they all stayed there – thanks to those who came to my Rosetta talk, & who kindly bought the books afterwards 🙇♂️
And thanks to Christine & David Ord of the Costa Blanca Astronomy Society for the invitation, & the nice evening in town yesterday.
Next stop Lisbon later this week for another public talk at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento 🇵🇹
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Took these to Dénia in Spain 🇪🇸, & they all stayed there – thanks to those who came to my Rosetta talk, & who kindly bought the books afterwards 🙇♂️
And thanks to Christine & David Ord of the Costa Blanca Astronomy Society for the invitation, & the nice evening in town yesterday.
Next stop Lisbon later this week for another public talk at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento 🇵🇹
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“Yes, I’m sure it’s a lovely projector, but where’s the HDMI port to connect my laptop?”
Doing a tech check for my talk about Rosetta in El Verger near Dénia on the Costa Blanca this evening 🇪🇸
I also think I’m coming down with a lurgy after travelling yesterday – I hope it’s not bad 😬🤞
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“Yes, I’m sure it’s a lovely projector, but where’s the HDMI port to connect my laptop?”
Doing a tech check for my talk about Rosetta in El Verger near Dénia on the Costa Blanca this evening 🇪🇸
I also think I’m coming down with a lurgy after travelling yesterday – I hope it’s not bad 😬🤞
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Every single trip I take on a train in Germany these days, something is late, broken, or cancelled 😡
So every single trip, I have to build hours of margin into my schedule 🤷♂️
Such a massive waste of time & nervous energy 🙄
Heading to Spain today (hopefully 🤞), to give a public talk about Rosetta. It has been a while 🛰️☄️
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Every single trip I take on a train in Germany these days, something is late, broken, or cancelled 😡
So every single trip, I have to build hours of margin into my schedule 🤷♂️
Such a massive waste of time & nervous energy 🙄
Heading to Spain today (hopefully 🤞), to give a public talk about Rosetta. It has been a while 🛰️☄️
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In a slightly discombobulating turn of events, I'm preparing my first talk in years about the Rosetta mission, to give in Spain later this week 🇪🇸
It entails dredging up so many old memories, as well as updating old slides & revisiting websites I haven't been to for ages 🙀
Not least the "Where is Rosetta?" page, which shows the spacecraft's orbit from launch in 2004 to mission end in 2016 🛰️
Turn on the background music for the full déjà vu effect 😭
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In a slightly discombobulating turn of events, I'm preparing my first talk in years about the Rosetta mission, to give in Spain later this week 🇪🇸
It entails dredging up so many old memories, as well as updating old slides & revisiting websites I haven't been to for ages 🙀
Not least the "Where is Rosetta?" page, which shows the spacecraft's orbit from launch in 2004 to mission end in 2016 🛰️
Turn on the background music for the full déjà vu effect 😭
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency 🚀🛰️📡🪐✨
I'm privileged & honoured to have spent 15 of the intervening years working in the Science and Human & Robotic Exploration Directorates.
There are many great experiences on many missions working with many amazing people to share 🙇♂️
But 12 November 2014, the day that Rosetta deployed Philae to the surface of Comet 67P/C-G, will forever be my most cherished memory ☄️
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency 🚀🛰️📡🪐✨
I'm privileged & honoured to have spent 15 of the intervening years working in the Science and Human & Robotic Exploration Directorates.
There are many great experiences on many missions working with many amazing people to share 🙇♂️
But 12 November 2014, the day that Rosetta deployed Philae to the surface of Comet 67P/C-G, will forever be my most cherished memory ☄️
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And finally, a reminder that the #Rosetta mission had already been featured in another #GoogleDoodle in 2014, this one on the day of landing on 12 November.
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https://doodles.google/doodle/philae-robotic-lander-lands-on-comet-67pchuryumovgerasimenko/
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And finally, a reminder that the #Rosetta mission had already been featured in another #GoogleDoodle in 2014, this one on the day of landing on 12 November.
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https://doodles.google/doodle/philae-robotic-lander-lands-on-comet-67pchuryumovgerasimenko/
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Third, Facebook's 2014 summary video, also featuring the scene in the ESOC MCR when #Philae touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November that year. There is also a short animation showing the landing.
As with the Google video, this comes at the end of the sequence, underlining the event as one of the major global highlights of that year.
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Third, Facebook's 2014 summary video, also featuring the scene in the ESOC MCR when #Philae touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November that year. There is also a short animation showing the landing.
As with the Google video, this comes at the end of the sequence, underlining the event as one of the major global highlights of that year.
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Second & also from Google, the 2014 edition of their annual Year in Search video.
The full thing is 1m32s & pride of place is given to #Rosetta & #Philae at the end, featuring part of our science fiction film about mission, "Ambition", the scenes in the ESOC Main Control Room in Darmstadt on 12 November, & a voice-over from NASA's Jim Green.
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Second & also from Google, the 2014 edition of their annual Year in Search video.
The full thing is 1m32s & pride of place is given to #Rosetta & #Philae at the end, featuring part of our science fiction film about mission, "Ambition", the scenes in the ESOC Main Control Room in Darmstadt on 12 November, & a voice-over from NASA's Jim Green.
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#OTD ten years ago, the end-of-2014 summaries from several of the big social media providers featured the history-making first landing on a comet by the ESA/DLR/CNES/ASI #Philae spacecraft, part of ESA's iconic #Rosetta mission.
It's not often that you make that kind of global impact with a space mission & it's something I remain deeply proud & privileged to have been a part of.
Here's the first, the #GoogleDoodle:
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#OTD ten years ago, the end-of-2014 summaries from several of the big social media providers featured the history-making first landing on a comet by the ESA/DLR/CNES/ASI #Philae spacecraft, part of ESA's iconic #Rosetta mission.
It's not often that you make that kind of global impact with a space mission & it's something I remain deeply proud & privileged to have been a part of.
Here's the first, the #GoogleDoodle:
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It's the tenth anniversary of Rosetta's probe Philae descending towards & landing on Comet 67P/C-G. It felt like the whole world was watching ... 🙀
While ESA's ESOC in Darmstadt was the place to be that day, today the focus is on ESTEC in Noordwijk, where around 150 of us are gathering to talk about the mission & celebrate its amazing legacy 🥳
So proud & privileged to have been involved 🙇♂️
Credit: Discovery Channel, Shelley Ayres, Dan Riskin
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It's the tenth anniversary of Rosetta's probe Philae descending towards & landing on Comet 67P/C-G. It felt like the whole world was watching ... 🙀
While ESA's ESOC in Darmstadt was the place to be that day, today the focus is on ESTEC in Noordwijk, where around 150 of us are gathering to talk about the mission & celebrate its amazing legacy 🥳
So proud & privileged to have been involved 🙇♂️
Credit: Discovery Channel, Shelley Ayres, Dan Riskin
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On the road 🚙
Home from Edinburgh last night & today involves a 600km drive from Heidelberg to Noordwijk, which I’m halfway through.
Heading to ESA’s #ESTEC for an event tomorrow celebrating the tenth anniversary of the landing of Philae on Comet 67P/C-G, one of many highlights of the iconic Rosetta mission.
Will be good to see many friends & colleagues again, & the bike is in the car, so weather permitting, I’ll get some flatland cycling in too 🚴♂️👍
#RosettaLegacy ☄️🛰️
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On the road 🚙
Home from Edinburgh last night & today involves a 600km drive from Heidelberg to Noordwijk, which I’m halfway through.
Heading to ESA’s #ESTEC for an event tomorrow celebrating the tenth anniversary of the landing of Philae on Comet 67P/C-G, one of many highlights of the iconic Rosetta mission.
Will be good to see many friends & colleagues again, & the bike is in the car, so weather permitting, I’ll get some flatland cycling in too 🚴♂️👍
#RosettaLegacy ☄️🛰️
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To find dragons, search in deep, dark caves 🐉
Was looking through the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko image archives ahead of the tenth anniversary of the landing Philae probe landing on 12 November ☄️🛰️
Discovered this nice wide & narrow-angle pair from 22 May 2016 from 6.3km, centred on the 220m wide, 185m deep Seth_01 pit 📷
Zoom in, crank up the brightness, & look at that lovely scaly texture 🐲🙂👍
Credit: ESA, Rosetta, MPS for OSIRIS team, Mark McCaughrean
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To find dragons, search in deep, dark caves 🐉
Was looking through the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko image archives ahead of the tenth anniversary of the landing Philae probe landing on 12 November ☄️🛰️
Discovered this nice wide & narrow-angle pair from 22 May 2016 from 6.3km, centred on the 220m wide, 185m deep Seth_01 pit 📷
Zoom in, crank up the brightness, & look at that lovely scaly texture 🐲🙂👍
Credit: ESA, Rosetta, MPS for OSIRIS team, Mark McCaughrean
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A legend has left the stage 🙇♂️
Great pleasure to be at ESOC this evening for the farewell party for Andrea Accomazzo, a key player in so many of our solar system missions 🪐🌞
He rose to international fame a decade ago as the spacecraft operations manager for #Rosetta, a mission that changed his life & those of so many others 🛰️☄️
In a huge loss to ESA, he’s moving to a new job in industry in Italy - a great team leader, a lovely man, & a good friend 👏
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A legend has left the stage 🙇♂️
Great pleasure to be at ESOC this evening for the farewell party for Andrea Accomazzo, a key player in so many of our solar system missions 🪐🌞
He rose to international fame a decade ago as the spacecraft operations manager for #Rosetta, a mission that changed his life & those of so many others 🛰️☄️
In a huge loss to ESA, he’s moving to a new job in industry in Italy - a great team leader, a lovely man, & a good friend 👏
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Ahead of talks this autumn about #Rosetta, I've been reviewing some of my old presentations.
I found a lovely two-panel panorama of Comet 67P/C-G that Aster Cowart made back in 2016 & remembered I'd always wanted to remake it myself, to see if I could pull up some extra shadow detail.
Here's my take on that image from 5 October 2014 at 19km from the comet, starting from scratch with data from the PSA.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS/Mark McCaughrean CC BY 4.0
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Ahead of talks this autumn about #Rosetta, I've been reviewing some of my old presentations.
I found a lovely two-panel panorama of Comet 67P/C-G that Aster Cowart made back in 2016 & remembered I'd always wanted to remake it myself, to see if I could pull up some extra shadow detail.
Here's my take on that image from 5 October 2014 at 19km from the comet, starting from scratch with data from the PSA.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS/Mark McCaughrean CC BY 4.0
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Back in the day, I gave around a hundred dedicated talks on the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/C-G 🛰️☄️
As far as I can tell, the last was in Thiruvananthapuram in India in Feb 2017, although I included Rosetta material in many wider talks for years after 🇮🇳
But it's now time to dust that material off as we near the tenth anniversary of Philae's landing on the comet: I've been asked to give several talks this autumn looking back to those days.
Still mind-blowing 🙀
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Back in the day, I gave around a hundred dedicated talks on the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/C-G 🛰️☄️
As far as I can tell, the last was in Thiruvananthapuram in India in Feb 2017, although I included Rosetta material in many wider talks for years after 🇮🇳
But it's now time to dust that material off as we near the tenth anniversary of Philae's landing on the comet: I've been asked to give several talks this autumn looking back to those days.
Still mind-blowing 🙀
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The Golden Age 🛰️☄️
A reminder that this room at ESOC where the mission ops team are controlling #BepiColombo tonight during its Mercury flyby, the same room where #JUICE was controlled during its Moon/Earth flyby a couple of weeks ago, has a long history of amazing space exploration adventures 🙇♂️
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The Golden Age 🛰️☄️
A reminder that this room at ESOC where the mission ops team are controlling #BepiColombo tonight during its Mercury flyby, the same room where #JUICE was controlled during its Moon/Earth flyby a couple of weeks ago, has a long history of amazing space exploration adventures 🙇♂️
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Ha – that’s no asteroid 🤪
Rewatching S1 of #TheExpanse from 2016 & am further reminded how obviously influenced the production team was by Rosetta’s adventures at Comet 67P/C-G over the preceding two years 🙂👍
What goes around comes around though, as at #SpaceRocks, we’ve since worked with Dominique Tipper, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, & the writers, James SA Corey 🙂
Stay tuned for more science meets science fiction 🖖🤘
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Ha – that’s no asteroid 🤪
Rewatching S1 of #TheExpanse from 2016 & am further reminded how obviously influenced the production team was by Rosetta’s adventures at Comet 67P/C-G over the preceding two years 🙂👍
What goes around comes around though, as at #SpaceRocks, we’ve since worked with Dominique Tipper, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, & the writers, James SA Corey 🙂
Stay tuned for more science meets science fiction 🖖🤘
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BTW, I was reminded a bit later that this is the room where Rosetta was run from – some real history here 🙂
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BTW, I was reminded a bit later that this is the room where Rosetta was run from – some real history here 🙂
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Have started watching #TheExpanse again with my wife, who’s never seen it 👍
I’d completely forgotten this moment in Episode 3 of Season 1 where a certain comet appears prominently on Miller’s solar system map 🤪
And I can’t remember now either if we brought it up when we spoke to Ty Franck & Daniel Abraham aka James SA Corey, the authors of The Expanse book & show producers, when we had them on an episode of Space Rocks Uplink 🖖🙂🤘
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Have started watching #TheExpanse again with my wife, who’s never seen it 👍
I’d completely forgotten this moment in Episode 3 of Season 1 where a certain comet appears prominently on Miller’s solar system map 🤪
And I can’t remember now either if we brought it up when we spoke to Ty Franck & Daniel Abraham aka James SA Corey, the authors of The Expanse book & show producers, when we had them on an episode of Space Rocks Uplink 🖖🙂🤘
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#OTD ten years ago, ESA's #Rosetta spacecraft was shocked when a Klingon battleship materialised right next to it, badly camouflaged as a comet 😱😉
#RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG #SpaceScience #SpaceExploration #StarTrek
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#OTD ten years ago, ESA's #Rosetta spacecraft was shocked when a Klingon battleship materialised right next to it, badly camouflaged as a comet 😱😉
#RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG #SpaceScience #SpaceExploration #StarTrek
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The final act 🙇♂️
Came in to remove the remaining items from my office, less than five hours before I cease to be a ESA staff member 🥺
But I’ve left one important thing here, to remind whoever comes next of just what Europe can achieve when the brilliant talents of its scientists, engineers, communicators, administrators, & managers combine to take on ambitious goals 🚀🛰️☄️
So long & thanks for all the science 🐬
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The final act 🙇♂️
Came in to remove the remaining items from my office, less than five hours before I cease to be a ESA staff member 🥺
But I’ve left one important thing here, to remind whoever comes next of just what Europe can achieve when the brilliant talents of its scientists, engineers, communicators, administrators, & managers combine to take on ambitious goals 🚀🛰️☄️
So long & thanks for all the science 🐬
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Listening to a presentation by new comms colleagues on how best to communicate space missions.
Through story telling, strong visuals, emotions, audience interaction, protagonists & antagonists, quests, journeys, monsters to be overcome, centring the people involved, exciting images, building tension, & so on.
All true.
But no mention of any of this. It’s as if it never happened … 🙄
#SciComm #RosettaLegacy #Astrodon #SpaceExploration #SpaceScience
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Listening to a presentation by new comms colleagues on how best to communicate space missions.
Through story telling, strong visuals, emotions, audience interaction, protagonists & antagonists, quests, journeys, monsters to be overcome, centring the people involved, exciting images, building tension, & so on.
All true.
But no mention of any of this. It’s as if it never happened … 🙄
#SciComm #RosettaLegacy #Astrodon #SpaceExploration #SpaceScience
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FWIW, here are some screenshot pictures of my appearance on 20 January 2014 on BBC Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman.
We had done it as a pre-record & Paxo was very complimentary after the interview.
Then when it was broadcast, he sarkily suggested we'd added the delay in the signal from Rosetta deliberately to build the tension.
@Chrislintott was in the studio in London & set him straight. Thanks, Chris 🙂👍
#WakeUpRosetta #RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG
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FWIW, here are some screenshot pictures of my appearance on 20 January 2014 on BBC Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman.
We had done it as a pre-record & Paxo was very complimentary after the interview.
Then when it was broadcast, he sarkily suggested we'd added the delay in the signal from Rosetta deliberately to build the tension.
@Chrislintott was in the studio in London & set him straight. Thanks, Chris 🙂👍
#WakeUpRosetta #RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG
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#OTD ten years ago, one of the greatest adventures in space exploration history came alive for people all around the world.
3. After the moment 🎉🍾🥳🥰🛰☄️
One of the greatest privileges of my life to have been in the room (at right) & to be part of this astonishing mission 🙇♂️
#WakeUpRosetta #RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG
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#OTD ten years ago, one of the greatest adventures in space exploration history came alive for people all around the world.
3. After the moment 🎉🍾🥳🥰🛰☄️
One of the greatest privileges of my life to have been in the room (at right) & to be part of this astonishing mission 🙇♂️
#WakeUpRosetta #RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG
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#OTD ten years ago, one of the greatest adventures in space exploration history came alive for people all around the world.
2. The moment 😱
#WakeUpRosetta #RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG
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#OTD ten years ago, one of the greatest adventures in space exploration history came alive for people all around the world.
2. The moment 😱
#WakeUpRosetta #RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG
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#OTD ten years ago, one of the greatest adventures in space exploration history came alive for people all around the world.
1. Before the moment 😬
#WakeUpRosetta #RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG
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#OTD ten years ago, one of the greatest adventures in space exploration history came alive for people all around the world.
1. Before the moment 😬
#WakeUpRosetta #RosettaLegacy #Comet67PCG
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Was in a seminar this morning with my old ESA colleague, Manfred Warhaut, former head of the Mission Operations Department at ESOC.
Which gives me the excuse to post this iconic picture we're both in from 20 January 2014, at the moment when Rosetta woke from its 2.5 year long deep space hibernation ahead of its rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko later that year.
Goosebumps to this day, almost a decade later 🙇♂️
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Was in a seminar this morning with my old ESA colleague, Manfred Warhaut, former head of the Mission Operations Department at ESOC.
Which gives me the excuse to post this iconic picture we're both in from 20 January 2014, at the moment when Rosetta woke from its 2.5 year long deep space hibernation ahead of its rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko later that year.
Goosebumps to this day, almost a decade later 🙇♂️