{"id":1322,"date":"2014-10-23T17:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:57:46","slug":"landing-on-a-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/2014\/10\/23\/landing-on-a-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"Landing on a comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"Image pull-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2014\/10\/Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1327\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/10\/Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km-150x150.png\" alt=\"Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/10\/Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/10\/Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/10\/Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km-624x624.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/10\/Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Excitement is building around the world as the Philae lander, part of <a href=\"http:\/\/rosetta.esa.int\">ESA&#8217;s Rosetta mission<\/a>, prepares to\u00a0touch down on the surface of Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. As part of the Spatial Awareness series, Cardiff University&#8217;s <a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.cardiff.ac.uk\/contactsandpeople\/?page=full&amp;id=493\">Chris North<\/a> chatted to Oxford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.physics.ox.ac.uk\/contacts\/people\/smethurst\">Becky Smethurst<\/a> and QUB&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/star.pst.qub.ac.uk\/~af\/Alan_Fitzsimmons\/About_Me.html\">Alan Fitzsimmons<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0currently on top of a mountain in Chile\u00a0preparing to observe the comet with one of the largest telescopes on the planet.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below, and don&#8217;t forget to keep up with Rosetta, ready for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/Rosetta_to_deploy_lander_on_12_November\">Philae&#8217;s\u00a0landing<\/a> event on 12 November!<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-RMHfwa5zo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement is building around the world as the Philae lander, part of ESA&#8217;s Rosetta mission, prepares to\u00a0touch down on the surface of Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. As part of the Spatial Awareness series, Cardiff University&#8217;s Chris North chatted to Oxford&#8217;s Becky Smethurst and QUB&#8217;s Alan Fitzsimmons &#8211;\u00a0currently on top of a mountain in Chile\u00a0preparing to observe the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-2","category-media","category-spatial-awareness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmOz-lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5531,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}