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Thursday 6th September Sol 30
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/06/thursday-6th-september-sol-30/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 6, 2012 Telescopes on Earth need to measure ‘flat’ and ‘dark’ frames with every set of observations in order to correct for distortions on the telescope mirror and any false detections on the light detector.
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Thursday 20th December Sol 133
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/20/thursday-20th-december-sol-133/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 20, 2012 Curiosity and its team will soon take a break over the Christmas holidays . However in the meantime we are using the opportunity to examine different parts of Yellowknife and its rocks.
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Friday 12th October Sol 66
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/13/friday-13th-october-sol-66/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 13, 2012 While we work at Rocknest with scooping, imaging and analyses, we take the chance to look down into Glenelg.
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24th February 2014 Sol 552
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/02/24/24th-february-2014-sol-552/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 24, 2014 We have succesfully passed through Dingo Gap, and this NavCam image shows the rearward view, where we have driven over the dune.
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26th November 2013 Sol 466
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/11/26/26th-november-2013-sol-466/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 26, 2013 Two years after launch from Cape Canaveral we have been slowed up temporarily by a minor short circuit, but are now getting back to analyses and driving.
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22nd March 2018 Sol 2000
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/03/22/22nd-march-2018-sol-2000/
MSL
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8th October 2013 Sol 417
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/08/8th-october-2013-sol-417/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 8, 2013 Our last drive was about 85 m away from Waypoint 1 towards the SW. As we progress one of the new ways we image the landscape is with the MAHLI microimager.
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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, 2018
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/royal/visits/duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the University of Leicester on Wednesday 28 November to celebrate the University’s work in the local community and with Leicester City Football Club.
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31st December 2014 Sol 854
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/12/31/31st-december-2014-sol-854/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 31, 2014 We are continuing the Pahrump localities looped drive. MSL is not working full time over the holidays but we had a ‘3-sol’ plan on the 29th December. I was the Geo Science Theme Lead for the day.
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Leap in modelling human impact on climate may lead to early warning of climate disasters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/tipping-points
Mathematicians led by the University of Leicester have applied statistical mechanics to climate change detection and attribution for first time, showing how to separate the ‘signal’ of human-made climate change from the ‘noise’ of natural climate fluctuations