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  • Tuesday 15th January 2013 Sol 159

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 15, 2013 We are finding more veins and white nodules across the drill  target area (called John Klein) and in our surrounding area.

  • 14th October 2013 Sol 424

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 14, 2013 The noon to pre-dawn temperature variation at Gale Crater can be up to 90 degrees centigrade.   This MastCam image shows the effects of this extreme temperature variation.

  • 20th May 2013 Sol 280

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 20, 2013 Here is a MAHLI image of our second drill hole at Cumberland.  Like the first drill hole it shows the difference between the reddish uppermost surface of Mars and what lies underneath.

  • Tuesday 2nd October Sol 56

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2012 We are getting excellent close up images with MAHLI of the rocks underneath us at the rim of Glenelg.  Soon we will pause to scoop a fine-grained sample for our XRD experiment.

  • July 5th 2013 Sol 324

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 5, 2013   I am visiting the French ChemCam HQ in the CNRS lab based in Toulouse.  Some of the development of ChemCam was done by the group here.

  • 24th April 2016 Sol 1322

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 24, 2016 We have just completed our latest drillhole at Lubango.

  • Sunday 5th August. Landing Day.

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2012 I get up to a beautiful day in California with humming birds feeding and clear views of the San Gabriel Mountains. We will have a final MSL team briefing  tonight at 9 pm PDT.

  • Thursday 30th August Sol 24

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 30, 2012 We are settled into a daily routine which centres around the data returns from Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

  • March 30th 2013 Sol 231

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 30, 2013 We are now back to full operations after the software problems, and getting in observations prior to the planetary conjunction.

  • 5th August 2013 Sol 355

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2013 We are just about at the one Earth year anniversary of our landing.  MSL Landing was on the 5th August Pacific time and about 6 am, 6th August British Summertime.

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