Rosetta spacecraft was plucky

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Categories: Pseudo-explanations

An example of anthropomorphism in popular science writing:

The three-tonne spacecraft was made up of the Rosetta orbiter, with its 14m (46ft) long solar-panel wings and 11 instruments, and the Philae lander which piggybacked on Rosetta with its own suite of instruments. This plucky spacecraft launched successfully from Kourou in French Guiana, South America, in March 2004 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket."

Natalie Starkey

Starkey, N. (2018). Catching Stardust. Comets, asteroids and the birth of the solar system. Bloomsbury Sigma.

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.