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Mark McCaughrean<p>And finally, a reminder that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rosetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rosetta</span></a> mission had already been featured in another <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleDoodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleDoodle</span></a> in 2014, this one on the day of landing on 12 November.</p><p>4/4</p><p><a href="https://doodles.google/doodle/philae-robotic-lander-lands-on-comet-67pchuryumovgerasimenko/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doodles.google/doodle/philae-r</span><span class="invisible">obotic-lander-lands-on-comet-67pchuryumovgerasimenko/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESA</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>Third, Facebook's 2014 summary video, also featuring the scene in the ESOC MCR when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philae</span></a> touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November that year. There is also a short animation showing the landing. </p><p>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.</p><p>3/</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESA</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>Second &amp; also from Google, the 2014 edition of their annual Year in Search video. </p><p>The full thing is 1m32s &amp; pride of place is given to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rosetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rosetta</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philae</span></a> 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, &amp; a voice-over from NASA's Jim Green.</p><p>2/</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESA</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 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 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philae</span></a> spacecraft, part of ESA's iconic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rosetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rosetta</span></a> mission. </p><p>It's not often that you make that kind of global impact with a space mission &amp; it's something I remain deeply proud &amp; privileged to have been a part of.</p><p>Here's the first, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleDoodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleDoodle</span></a>: </p><p>1/</p><p><a href="https://doodles.google/doodle/new-years-eve-2014/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doodles.google/doodle/new-year</span><span class="invisible">s-eve-2014/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>It's the tenth anniversary of Rosetta's probe Philae descending towards &amp; landing on Comet 67P/C-G. It felt like the whole world was watching ... 🙀</p><p>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 &amp; celebrate its amazing legacy 🥳</p><p>So proud &amp; privileged to have been involved 🙇‍♂️ </p><p>Credit: Discovery Channel, Shelley Ayres, Dan Riskin</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>On the road 🚙</p><p>Home from Edinburgh last night &amp; today involves a 600km drive from Heidelberg to Noordwijk, which I’m halfway through.</p><p>Heading to ESA’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESTEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESTEC</span></a> 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.</p><p>Will be good to see many friends &amp; colleagues again, &amp; the bike is in the car, so weather permitting, I’ll get some flatland cycling in too 🚴‍♂️👍</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> ☄️🛰️<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> 📷</p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>To find dragons, search in deep, dark caves 🐉</p><p>Was looking through the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko image archives ahead of the tenth anniversary of the landing Philae probe landing on 12 November ☄️🛰️</p><p>Discovered this nice wide &amp; narrow-angle pair from 22 May 2016 from 6.3km, centred on the 220m wide, 185m deep Seth_01 pit 📷</p><p>Zoom in, crank up the brightness, &amp; look at that lovely scaly texture 🐲🙂👍</p><p>Credit: ESA, Rosetta, MPS for OSIRIS team, Mark McCaughrean</p><p>1/</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>A legend has left the stage 🙇‍♂️</p><p>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 🪐🌞</p><p>He rose to international fame a decade ago as the spacecraft operations manager for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rosetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rosetta</span></a>, a mission that changed his life &amp; those of so many others 🛰️☄️</p><p>In a huge loss to ESA, he’s moving to a new job in industry in Italy - a great team leader, a lovely man, &amp; a good friend 👏</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>Ahead of talks this autumn about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rosetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rosetta</span></a>, I've been reviewing some of my old presentations.</p><p>I found a lovely two-panel panorama of Comet 67P/C-G that Aster Cowart made back in 2016 &amp; remembered I'd always wanted to remake it myself, to see if I could pull up some extra shadow detail.</p><p>Here's my take on that image from 5 October 2014 at 19km from the comet, starting from scratch with data from the PSA.</p><p>Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS/Mark McCaughrean CC BY 4.0</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>Back in the day, I gave around a hundred dedicated talks on the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/C-G 🛰️☄️</p><p>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 🇮🇳</p><p>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.</p><p>Still mind-blowing 🙀</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>The Golden Age 🛰️☄️</p><p>A reminder that this room at ESOC where the mission ops team are controlling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BepiColombo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BepiColombo</span></a> tonight during its Mercury flyby, the same room where <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JUICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JUICE</span></a> was controlled during its Moon/Earth flyby a couple of weeks ago, has a long history of amazing space exploration adventures 🙇‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>Ha – that’s no asteroid 🤪</p><p>Rewatching S1 of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheExpanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheExpanse</span></a> from 2016 &amp; am further reminded how obviously influenced the production team was by Rosetta’s adventures at Comet 67P/C-G over the preceding two years 🙂👍</p><p>What goes around comes around though, as at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceRocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceRocks</span></a>, we’ve since worked with Dominique Tipper, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, &amp; the writers, James SA Corey 🙂</p><p>Stay tuned for more science meets science fiction 🖖🤘</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>BTW, I was reminded a bit later that this is the room where Rosetta was run from – some real history here 🙂</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>Have started watching <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheExpanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheExpanse</span></a> again with my wife, who’s never seen it 👍</p><p>I’d completely forgotten this moment in Episode 3 of Season 1 where a certain comet appears prominently on Miller’s solar system map 🤪</p><p>And I can’t remember now either if we brought it up when we spoke to Ty Franck &amp; Daniel Abraham aka James SA Corey, the authors of The Expanse book &amp; show producers, when we had them on an episode of Space Rocks Uplink 🖖🙂🤘</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/2z-tgPuixLY?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/live/2z-tgPuixLY?f</span><span class="invisible">eature=shared</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Comet67PCG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comet67PCG</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> ten years ago, ESA's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rosetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rosetta</span></a> spacecraft was shocked when a Klingon battleship materialised right next to it, badly-camouflaged as a comet 😱😉</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Comet67PCG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comet67PCG</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>The final act 🙇‍♂️</p><p>Came in to remove the remaining items from my office, less than five hours before I cease to be a ESA staff member 🥺</p><p>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, &amp; managers combine to take on ambitious goals 🚀🛰️☄️</p><p>So long &amp; thanks for all the science 🐬</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosettaLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosettaLegacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a></p>
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