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• Tuesday 2nd October Sol 56

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/02/tuesday-2nd-october-sol-56/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2012 We are getting excellent close up images with MAHLI of the rocks underneath us at the rim of Glenelg.  Soon we will pause to scoop a fine-grained sample for our XRD experiment.

• March 30th 2013 Sol 231

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/03/30/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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/05/5th-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.

• 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.

• 25th November 2014 Sol 819

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/11/25/25th-november-2014-sol-819/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 25, 2014 We are continuing our detailed traverse around the Pahrump area. I will be Geo ScienceTheme Lead tomorrow and we aim to do more contact science.  The MastCam image is of Book Cliffs.

• 18th March 2016 Sol 1285

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/18/18th-march-2016-sol-1285/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 18, 2016 One of the ChemCam capabilities is to use its  Remote MicroImager (RMI) to take images of our laser LIBS targets, but also of more distant features.

• 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.

• 12th June 2013 Sol 302

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/06/12/12th-june-2013-sol-302/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 12, 2013 We are carefully positioning ourselves for Point Lake.

• 14th October 2013 Sol 424

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/14/october-14th-2013-sol-424/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 14, 2013 The noon to pre-dawn temperature variation at Gale Crater can be up to 90 degrees centigrade.   This MastCam image shows the effects of this extreme temperature variation.