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1st September 2014 Sol 736
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/09/01/1st-september-2014-sol-736/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 1, 2014 We are in an uneven area of terrain with sand-filled hollows so we have changed direction, out of Hidden Valley and via Trilobite Crater. The rover planners ‘RP’s’ are cautious about slippage in sand.
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13th December 2015 Sol 1192
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/12/13/13th-december-2015-sol-1192/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 13, 2015 The image shows a MAHLI close up image of the Bagnold dunes sand. The first striking thing about the mm-size grains is how rounded they are.
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1st October 2014 Sol 767
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/10/01/1st-october-2014-sol-767/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 1, 2014 This Left MastCam (‘M34’ because of the focal length) view shows the Pahrump drilled grains just before they are about to be sieved by closing up the scoop and sieve, then turning the whole robotic arm turret.
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University welcomes Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/sri-lanka
Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Manorie Mallikaratchy met students and colleagues from the University of Leicester.
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Khaled Laib
https://le.ac.uk/people/khaled-laib
The academic profile of Dr Khaled Laib, Lecturer at University of Leicester
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Dr Grant Dewson
https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/alumni/grant-dewson
Find out more about Dr Grant Dewson, alumnus of the University of Leicester Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation.
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Black hole bullseye sheds light on interstellar dust
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/black-hole-2018bulls-eye2019-sheds-light-on-interstellar-dust
What looks like a shooting target (right) is actually an image of nested rings of X-ray light centred on an erupting black hole. On June 15, NASA's Swift satellite detected the start of a new outburst from V404 Cygni, where a black hole and a sun-like star orbit each other.
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Case of memoryloss man like nothing we have ever seen before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/case-of-memory-loss-man-like-nothing-we-have-ever-seen-before
Clinical psychologist Dr Gerald Burgess from the School of Psychology has described treating an individual with a ‘Groundhog Day/Memento’- style memory loss after a root-canal treatment at a dentist as ‘like nothing we have ever seen before’ in a paper published in...
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Could scream power meet Britains energy requirements
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/could-screams-meet-britains-energy-requirements
Screams extracted from the population of Britain, as seen in the Disney and Pixar film Monsters, Inc,. could theoretically be used to generate enough energy to power the country, according to a Natural Sciences student from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science.
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How much is your time really worth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/how-much-is-your-time-really-worth
While a penny doesn't buy much nowadays, Natural Sciences student Osarenkhoe Uwuigbe from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science has investigated the popular idiom ‘A penny for your thoughts’ by working out how much of a person’s thought could theoretically be...