{"id":13818,"date":"2014-08-06T14:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13818"},"modified":"2014-08-06T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:02:26","slug":"rosetta-arrives-at-comet-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13818","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta arrives at comet destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAfter ten years, five months and four days travelling towards our destination, looping around the Sun five times and clocking up 6.4 billion kilometres, we are delighted to announce finally \u2018we are here\u2019,\u201d says Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA\u2019s Director General.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEurope\u2019s Rosetta is now the first spacecraft in history to rendezvous with a comet, a major highlight in exploring our origins. Discoveries can start.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/Rosetta_arrives_at_comet_destination\">Rosetta arrives at comet destination \/ Rosetta \/ Space Science \/ Our Activities \/ ESA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2014\/08\/06\/re-live-the-excitement\/\">Re-Live the excitement<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those of you who couldn&#8217;t follow the live streamed event this morning, here&#8217;s a short summary of what happened here at ESA&#8217;s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt at the Rosetta Rendezvous event. A full replay of the livestream can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/08\/Rosetta_arrives_at_comet_67P_C-G\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A couple of pics <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2014\/08\/06\/postcards-from-rosetta\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previous coverage of it waking up <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12260\">here<\/a> and of it having its software upgraded <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12917\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter ten years, five months and four days travelling towards our destination, looping around the Sun five times and clocking up 6.4 billion kilometres, we are delighted to announce finally \u2018we are here\u2019,\u201d says Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA\u2019s Director General. \u201cEurope\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13818\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[901,645,1316,512],"class_list":["post-13818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-esa","tag-history","tag-rosetta","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13822,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions\/13822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}