the Earth. From 2006 to 2012, she was a member of the Royal Society's Education Committee and was part of their State of the Nation reports Working Group during 2007-2009. She is member of UCL’s Steering Committee for the Beacon for Public Engagement. She also runs MSSL’s public engagement programme. Solar Orbiter Green is involved in the development of the Solar Orbiter, a Sun-observing satellite under development by the ESA. The aim of the mission is to perform close-up, high-resolution studies of the Sun for a better understanding of its behaviour, heliosphere, solar winds and coronal magnetic field. Media appearances Green regularly appears on television and radio, most notably The Sky at Night, Stargazing Live, Stardate, Horizon, Xchange and The One Show. Her radio programmes include The Infinite Monkey Cage, Saturday Live and PM (BBC Radio 4), Material World, Slooh Radio (US), Newshour (BBC World Service), Live Drive and Bacon's Theory (BBC 5 Live), and The Butcher's Apron and Nick Ferrari (LBC). Between 2004 to 2005 Green co-presented several programmes in the BBC/Open University series Stardate. Episodes include "Stardate: Mission To Titan" which she co-presented with Adam Hart-Davis, covering the European Space Agency successfully landing the Huygens probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and "Stardate: Deep Impact" which she co-presented with Brian Cox, covering NASA successfully colliding a probe into the side of comet Tempel 1 in an effort to learn more about the origins of the Solar System. Since 2010, Green has appeared on and co-presented several episodes of Stargazing Live and has appeared on several episodes of the BBC Radio 4 show The Infinite Monkey Cage, discussing topics such as the end of the world and parallel universes. In 2013, Green hosted her own radio programme, Solar Max on BBC Radio 4 on the topic of space weather. The programme explained how emissions from the sun can cause changes in the Earth's magnetic field and upper atmosphere, and what the implications of these are for the UK. Personal life When asked where her love of space science came from, Green has said: "As a child, I remember hearing my parents say that they thought I was going to be an astrophysicist when I grew up. Not actually knowing what an astro-thinga-me-wotsit was, I agreed with them because I thought it sounded impressive. Really at that time I wanted to look after animals. People used to bring me injured