{"id":16070,"date":"2014-11-13T16:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16070"},"modified":"2014-11-13T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T15:56:55","slug":"rosetta-a-space-mission-in-its-own-way-as-technically-brilliant-as-putting-a-man-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16070","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta: a space mission in its own way as technically brilliant as putting a man on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really excited by the Rosetta mission and stunned by the technical achievement of putting Philae onto a comet. Here are some mission facts:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philae lander<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Travelled 6.4 billion km (four billion miles) to reach the comet<\/li>\n<li>Journey took 10 years<\/li>\n<li>Planning for the journey began 25 years ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Comet 67P<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than four billion years old<\/li>\n<li>Mass of 10 billion tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Hurtling through space at 18km\/s (40,000mph)<\/li>\n<li>Shaped like a rubber duck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see some of the pictures transmitted back to Earth in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-30034060\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really excited by the Rosetta mission and stunned by the technical achievement of putting Philae onto a comet. Here are some mission facts: Philae lander Travelled 6.4 billion km (four billion miles) to reach the comet Journey took 10 years Planning for the journey began 25 years ago Comet 67P More than four billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16073,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions\/16073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}