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  • 10th April 2014 Sol 596

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 10, 2014 Here is a NavCam image of the Kimberley, with Mount Remarkable the small hill (less than 5 m high) which we are pointing towards.

  • 8th May 2014 Sol 624

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 8, 2014 We have succesfully drilled Windjana and transferred the material to the CHIMRA system for CheMin analyses.  Now we will be able to anslyes the tailings by ChemCam and APXS.

  • 24th September 2014 Sol 758

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 24, 2014 We are drilling at Pahrump (named after an old Shoshone, native American settlement in what is now Nevada).

  • 17th April 2016 Sol 1315

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 17, 2016 Here is a NavCam mosaic of the Naukluft Plateau.  We are looking around us for the next drill target. A particular feature is searching for, and trying to understand, silica enrichments.

  • 21st December 2016 Sol 1556

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 21, 2016 I am Geo-Min Science theme lead for todays plan.  As usual after 4 years of operations we are doing 3 sols of planning at one go.

  • 19th January 2017 Sol 1584

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 19, 2017 We have found another (the 4th) meteorite.  The fist sized sample called Ames_Knob – which was analysed by ChemCam – turns out to be composed of Fe and Ni metal.

  • Saturday 5th August Landing Day

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 6, 2012 18 minutes to entry We are gathered in Building 321, the Flight Operations Centre. Distance = 7200  km Velocity 17, 400 km/h.

  • Sol 0 Monday 6th August

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 6, 2012 1.30 am PDT   More images from the latest data relay.  We get to work – linking it to what we saw from the orbital images and describing what we see.

  • Tuesday 21st August Sol 16

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 22, 2012 Today was a day to gather up and consider the data being send back from Curiosity – now we have ChemCam laser data and its images, panoramic images from MastCam, the navigation cameras for plotting our path...

  • Thursday 23rd August Sol 17

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 23, 2012 The team has taken a break as Governor of California visits JPL to hear about MSL.  We also have the first wide angle images HazCam (Hazard Cameras at the front and back of Curiosity) to look at.

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