The mission to land a probe on comet 67P was demystified brilliantly, but A History of Ideas resembled a dinner-party debate
Frontiers: The Rosetta Mission (Radio 4) | iPlayer
A History of Ideas (Radio 4) | iPlayer
Wednesday was one of those days, a day so busy with ordinary life that Big News just passes you by. So it wasnt until the early evening that I clocked anything about Comet 67P and the Rosetta mission. As I hadnt even registered that the Rosetta space craft had been in outer space since August, busily orbiting around the 67P, a rubber-duck-shaped comet one-tenth the size of LA, I definitely had some catching up to do. Social media wasnt much help, merely offering illustrations of what would happen if the rubber duck landed on LA, so thank goodness for Radio 4s Frontiers, which opened its new series with a special on the Rosetta mission.
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