{"id":1692,"date":"2015-08-27T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:57:45","slug":"pythagorean-astronomy-in-conversation-with-mark-mccaughrean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/2015\/08\/27\/pythagorean-astronomy-in-conversation-with-mark-mccaughrean\/","title":{"rendered":"Pythagorean Astronomy: In conversation with Mark McCaughrean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Comet_on_30_July_2015_NavCam_node_full_image_2\"<\/a>

67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA\/Rosetta\/NavCam)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

On Monday 24th August, Cardiff was treated to a public talk by Prof Mark McCaughrean<\/a>, Senior Science Advisor in the European Space Agency’s Directorate of Science and Robotic Exploration<\/a>. Mark spoke about the Rosetta<\/a> mission, which has been\u00a0studying comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for the past year, including the landing of\u00a0Philae on the comet’s surface amid huge media\u00a0attention.<\/p>\n

In this month’s Pythagorean Astronomy, I had a fascinating chat with\u00a0Mark about his work at ESA,\u00a0and his role\u00a0leading\u00a0the communications department. The public attention around Rosetta\u00a0helped make it one of the\u00a0great successes of the modern space age, and that is largely thanks\u00a0to the efforts of\u00a0the ESA science communications team – whether that be the press events around key mission milestones, the science fiction movie “Ambition<\/a>“, or the anthropomorphism of the spacecraft in a series of short\u00a0cartoons<\/a>. But it’s not without its adverse effects, as the science teams behind the cameras and other instruments often want to keep\u00a0their ground-breaking\u00a0images under their belt.<\/p>\n

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\nOriginally broadcast on 27th August\u00a02015 as part of Pythagoras’ Trousers<\/a> on Radio Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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