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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.

• 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.

• 20th May 2013 Sol 280

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/05/20/20th-may-2013-sol-280/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 20, 2013 Here is a MAHLI image of our second drill hole at Cumberland.  Like the first drill hole it shows the difference between the reddish uppermost surface of Mars and what lies underneath.

• 24th April 2016 Sol 1322

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/04/24/24th-april-2016-sol-1322/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 24, 2016 We have just completed our latest drillhole at Lubango.

• July 5th 2013 Sol 324

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/05/july-5th-2013-sol-324/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 5, 2013   I am visiting the French ChemCam HQ in the CNRS lab based in Toulouse.  Some of the development of ChemCam was done by the group here.

• 17th February 2014 Sol 545

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/02/17/17th-february-2014-sol-545/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 17, 2014 As we approach a full martian year (669 sols) we have travelled about 5 km.  There is fine tuning to be done on the route to get us relatively quickly to the clay and iron oxide concentrations in Mt.

• 16th August 2016 Sol 1432

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/08/16/16th-august-2016-sol-1432/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 16, 2016 The Veins of Mars The Veins of Mars Dr Samuel Illingworth of Manchester Metropolitan University has written a poem about the sulphate veins on Mars that we have just published about in Meteoritics and...

• Celebrating International Women’s Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/03/22/celebrating-international-womens-day/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 22 March 2021 International Women’s Day 2021 was celebrated on 8 March 2021 with a programme of online events. The wall of women returned to the University in virtual form.

• Leicester Planetary Scientist in BBC Earth Feature on Jupiter

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/07/leicester-planetary-scientist-in-bbc-earth-feature-on-jupiter/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 7 June 2021 Dr. Henrik Melin was interviewed for a feature for @BBCEarth about the greatest of planets – Jupiter. He discusses Juno’s exploration of the giant planet, and highlights some of the latest discoveries.

• 21st October 2013 Sol 429

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/21/21st-october-2013-sol-429/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 21, 2013 We are now just a few more sols from the second waypoint.