Freelance space science storyteller, content strategy & social media. Former @esascience editor. Tweets about space, running, coffee. Opinions own.
Leiden, Netherlands
Joined March 2009
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I’m moving house. You can find me mainly on:
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See you there! 👋
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On 8 January, at 06:59 CET, Bepi, Mio and MTM got as close as 295 km to Mercury’s surface. This sixth flyby is the last time the #BepiColombo trio greet the planet together 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
ALT Cartoon representation of the three elements of the BepiColombo mission: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (shown in blue, middle), JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (red, top) and the ESA-built Mercury Transfer Module (grey, bottom), respectively. The Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter holds a clipboard with all the six flyby dates marked as checked. Left unchecked is the arrival date on 21 November 2026. In the background, planet Mercury greets them with a yellow balloon shaped as number six.
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Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.
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I'm getting ready for my last flyby of Mercury! One more trip and I'll be home for good 🥹
🛰️🌑We're gearing up for BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby, coming up this Wednesday!
ℹ️Closest approach is 295 km at 06:59 CET
We'll investigate Mercury's cold night side, north pole craters, and the vast northern plains
👇esa.int/Science_Exploration/…
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❄☃ "We're dreaming of a white Christmas..." - on Mars?
Step into the end of the year with this picturesque ‘winter wonderland’ scene at the south pole of Mars, captured by our Mars Express.
Is it snowing where you are?
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🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for the #Christmas #Mars Express image release!
Dreaming of a white Christmas? Step into this picturesque scene at the south pole of #Mars, captured by @esa’s Mars Express 👇
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ALT Swirls of light and dark layers mark the boundaries between ice and dust layers exposed in this icy scene. The right side of the image has a lot of ice coverage compared with the left hand side that has numerous dark fan-shaped deposits tracing the horizontal layers.
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Mercury in motion... One of the #BepiColombo selfie-cameras captured Mercury today as the spacecraft rushed by the planet at almost 3 km per second. 🛰️💨
This time-lapse of unprocessed images was captured during 10:26-11:18 UTC today (11:26-12:18 CET), between 53700 and 48000 km from the planet's surface. 📸
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Thank you for following our #CometLandingRelived coverage! ☄️🛰️
What are your lasting impressions of #Rosetta and #Philae’s historical encounter with a comet?
We’d love to hear your stories, and you can enjoy other fans’ reactions here: blogs.esa.int/10-years-since…
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“We were beginning to think that Philae would remain lost forever. It is incredible we have captured this at the final hour.” – Patrick Martin (@esa Rosetta Mission Manager, 2016)
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Could hardly believe my own @Rosetta_OSIRIS eyes! Finally got this view of @Philae2014 on 2 Sept, 2.7km from #67P
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Part 2/2 22 months later…
After a long, pain-staking search and with only a month left of the @esa_Rosetta mission, the team makes a remarkable discovery…
“We are so happy to have finally imaged Philae, and to see it in such amazing detail!” – Cecilia Tubiana (OSIRIS camera team, @MPSGoettingen, 2016)
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“This wonderful news means that we now have the missing ‘ground-truth’ information needed to put Philae’s three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actually is!” – Matt Taylor (@esa Rosetta Project Scientist, 2016)
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So happy to have seen @Philae2014 again before my mission ends later this month...more about my #CometLanding soon!
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Welcome to our #CometLandingRelived epilogue!
Part 1/2: Seven months later…
Late one Saturday evening, an 85 second burst of data arrives from the surface of comet #67P.
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“Philae has been a tremendous challenge and for the lander teams to have achieved the science results that they have in the unexpected and difficult circumstances is something we can all be proud of.” – Patrick Martin (@esa Rosetta Mission Manager, 2016)
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These blog entries describing how #Rosetta & #Philae's mission and the #scicomm around it impacted your life long-term is the most beautiful thing I'll probably ever read 🥹 Thank you contributors, for sharing your personal stories 🥹
How were you feeling at the end of @philae2014’s mission?
Mission fans have shared their lasting impressions here: blogs.esa.int/10-years-since…
If your nerves can take it, come back tomorrow for a last surprise or two…
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ALT Cartoon Philae sleeps under a blanket in the shadow as the Sun sets behind a cliff.
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Welcome to our last day of #CometLandingRelived coverage. As @DLR_en Philae Lander Manager Stephan Ulamec said: “This has been a crazy week. Keep your fingers crossed for tonight.”
Will the teams locate @philae2014? Will the lander complete its science goals before its battery runs out? Let’s find out…
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ALT Cartoon representation of Philae yawns in front of a laptop, arms outstretched. Philae wears a yellow hard hat with light on.
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Join us again tomorrow for the final chapter in @esa_Rosetta and @philae2014’s extraordinary encounter with a comet…but is it really the end?
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ALT Split screen with cartoon Rosetta left and Philae right. Both hold a cell phone indicating they are trying to talk. Philae is on the surface of the comet with a blanket over his legs, Rosetta is in orbit.
I love this cover of @ScienceMagazine 😉
“Many of the instruments have acquired what they wanted to. ROMAP acquired the magnetic field and there will be important data on whether the material is magnetised or not. Tomorrow three more instruments will be on. It’s really tremendous. We are at the limit of what humankind can do. – Jean-Pierre Bibring (Lead Lander Scientist, @IASorsay, 2014)
The results of Philae’s first analysis were published the following year 👉
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ALT Cartoon scene with Rosetta holding up a copy of Science journal; the cover shows Philae using his rock hammer.
I have a faint recollection of being in the project room with all these large pieces of paper with the images on, mosaicked together on the table, the team studying them for clues of Philae's whereabouts... #CometLandingRelived
“We hit the nominal landing site less than 100 metres from the predicted point” – Stephan Ulamec (@DLR_en Philae Lander Manager, 2014)
“Flight dynamics – these guys are the heroes of this mission. This is unbelievable accuracy. We can show you where the first touchdown point was, but we have a hard time to find the lander [now]. Holger Sierks (OSIRIS Principal Investigator, @MPSGoettingen, 2014)
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“This is the first image ever acquired from a comet. We see something we built, with something nature built 4.6 billion years ago – Jean-Pierre Bibring (@IASorsay Lead Lander Scientist, 2014)
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Welcome to a comet! First CIVA images confirm @Philae2014 is on surface of #67P! ow.ly/EczwI #CometLanding
The morning after...👇 #CometLandingRelived
Welcome back to our #CometLandingRelived coverage and to @philae2014’s first day on a comet. It’s been confirmed we landed three times, and the first science results are already in…
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ALT Infographic highlighting Philae’s achievements at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko