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  • Archaeological Theory

    Module code: AR2601  What was gender like in the past? How are politics and the past entwined? How was the past different from the present? How can archaeology help us think differently about the present? These are some of the key questions posed by this exciting...

  • 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.

  • Monday 13th August Sol 7

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 12, 2012 One of the things that Curiosity carries is 1.2 million names from 246 countries together with student essays and letters from  the jpl engineers who constructed Curiosity.

  • 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.

  • Tuesday August 14th Sol 9

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 14, 2012 Barack Obama talked to the JPL engineering team yesterday and everyone else watched a video link of this.

  • 29th November 2016 Sol 1534

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 1, 1970 We have started our 19th drill or scoop.  Curiosity now aims to drill at regular elevation intervals (25 m) as we progress up through the Murray formation.

  • Computer Architecture

    Module code: CO1104 While modern computers and computer-controlled devices are complex, there are key components from which these are built. In particular they have a processor which might be thought of as the heart of a computer.

  • Modern scientist vs. 1600s scientist: Moon landings

    Modern planetary scientist Dr Suzie Imber critiques John Wilkins's incredible 17th c. book on space travel

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