{"id":9711,"date":"2018-07-17T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=9711"},"modified":"2018-07-17T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T12:49:17","slug":"a-journey-to-mercury-tedxlondon-talk-by-professor-david-rothery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/science-mct\/space\/a-journey-to-mercury-tedxlondon-talk-by-professor-david-rothery\/","title":{"rendered":"A journey to Mercury: TEDxLondon talk by Professor David Rothery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor David Rothery spoke at <a href=\"https:\/\/tedxlondon.com\/\">TEDxLondon<\/a> in July 2018, talking about the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/bepicolombo\/\">BepiColombo mission,<\/a> Europe&#8217;s first mission to Mercury. Setting off in October 2018, the mission will take seven years to reach its destination, with the spacecraft completing a complex trajectory to reach the planet before examining its surface and magnetic field in detail.<\/p>\n<p>In the talk, Professor Rothery discusses why Mercury is a puzzle that has left scientists mystified, and outlines what the mission hopes to achieve.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A journey to the closest planet to the sun | Professor David Rothery | TEDxLondon\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UZlPP0UphI0?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>More from Professor David Rothery<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/science-mct\/science-environment\/is-there-a-new-volcano-on-hawaii\/\">Is there a new volcano on Hawaii?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/science-mct\/space\/mysterious-red-spots-on-mercury-get-names-but-what-are-they\/\">Mysterious red spots on Mercury get names &#8211; but what are they?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Study space science<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/sm123\">Physics and Space module<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/s177\">Galaxies, stars and planets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/find\/science\">More science courses<\/a> from The Open University<\/p>\n<p>Explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/search-results?as_q=space\">free resources and courses on OpenLearn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor David Rothery spoke at TEDxLondon in July 2018, talking about the upcoming BepiColombo mission, Europe&#8217;s first mission to Mercury. Setting off in October 2018, the mission will take seven years to reach its destination, with the spacecraft completing a complex trajectory to reach the planet before examining its surface and magnetic field in detail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[825,1340,1418,1794,1975,2081,2182],"class_list":["post-9711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space","tag-esa","tag-london","tag-mercury","tag-professor-david-rothery","tag-science","tag-space","tag-tedx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}