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• Professor Mark Wilkinson Centenary Inaugural Lecture

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/01/26/how-to-train-your-telescope-professor-mark-wilkinson-centenary-inaugural-lecture/

  Professor Mark Wilkinson Centenary Inaugural Lecture

• Sol 0 Monday 6th August

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/06/sol-0-monday-6th-august-1/

  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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/22/tuesday-21st-august-sol-15/

  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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/23/thursday-23rd-august-sol-17-1/

  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.

• 24th June 2016 Sol 1380

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/06/24/24th-june-2016-sol-1380/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 24, 2016 Here is the latest HiRISE image of Curiosity.  It shows the rover on the Naukluft Plateau where we have been for the last few months.

• 24th September 2014 Sol 758

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/09/24/24th-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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/04/17/17th-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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/12/21/21st-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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/01/19/19th-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.

• Friday 14th September Sol 38

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/14/friday-14th-september-sol-38/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 14, 2012 The MastCam has finished imaging of different parts of the rover and we are driving again.  On our way to Glenelg we will stop to analyse a basaltic rock.