{"id":6922,"date":"2014-11-13T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T09:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2014-11-13T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T09:23:59","slug":"lets-go-on-a-journey-to-a-comet-and-into-our-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/2014\/11\/13\/lets-go-on-a-journey-to-a-comet-and-into-our-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s go on a journey: to a comet and into our brains!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elsa Montagnon \u2013 Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESOC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"MissionThis week space enthusiasts are curiously following the\u00a0European Space Agency’s\u00a0manoeuvres to place a small lander on the surface of comet\u00a067P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko \u2013 more than\u00a0400 million kilometers away from Earth. The Rosetta spacecraft\u00a0was launched 10 years ago and has been travelling this huge distance through the solar system to finally reach the comet this week.\u00a0The Philae lander module \u2013 with the size of a washing machine \u2013 has left its mothership Rosetta and landed on the comet yesterday. It is now trying to analyse\u00a0the comet’s composition and will send pictures from the comet’s surface.<\/p>\n

During the SET-Routes project <\/a>(EC FP6 funded), which the European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS) at EMBL has coordinated, we produced a lecture\u00a0for students and teachers called “Let\u2019s go to a comet \u2013 Mission Rosetta”<\/a>. Our presenter at the time was Elsa Montagnon, an engineer and\u00a0Spacecraft Operations Manager \u00a0at the European Space Agency’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. \u00a0Elsa, who works in space exploration, has been called the ‘comet hunter’ because from the mission control room at ESOC her team has remotely steered the Rosetta spacecraft over millions of kilometers to reach the\u00a0comet. Have a look at the SET-Routes lecture and find out how it felt for Elsa when “…the spacecraft was on the launch pad,\u00a0ready to get started…”. The lecture can be accessed via on-demand video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"EIL2014_title1\"<\/a>It certainly is a challenge to go out, above our heads, and see what is out there! But similarly, there are still a lot of things to discover within the most intriguing organ of ourselves: our brain. If you are interested in joining us on a journey into the human brain, we cordially invite you to participate in the next EMBL Insight Lecture \u201cWhy do we do what we do? Exploring the neural basis of emotions\u201d<\/a> which will be live-streamed on 5 December 2014. EMBL Group Leader\u00a0Dr. Cornelius Gross will\u00a0provide an introduction to the study of brain and behaviour and will then explore the challenges scientists face when trying to understand how complex behaviour is determined.<\/p>\n

We would like to invite you to join us for what promises to be an exciting event on the neural basis of emotions. REGISTER HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week space enthusiasts are curiously following the\u00a0European Space Agency’s\u00a0manoeuvres to place a small lander on the surface of comet\u00a067P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko \u2013 more than\u00a0400 million kilometers away from Earth. The Rosetta spacecraft\u00a0was launched 10 years ago and has been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1632,1587,1633,1629,1630,1631,1628],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-67pchuryumov-gerasimenko","tag-brain","tag-comet","tag-cornelius-gross","tag-elsa-montagnon","tag-philae","tag-rosetta"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}