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• Earth history opens a new chapter

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/earth-history-opens-a-new-chapter

  An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be used to mark the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history – the Anthropocene.

• Upcoming dates for Professorial Inaugural Lecture series announced

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/upcoming-dates-for-professorial-inaugural-lecture-series-announced

  Academics from the University of Leicester will discuss their areas of expertise as part of the Professorial Inaugural Lecture series, with new dates announced for the final months of 2017.

• Prestigious Fellowship awarded to Leicester Mathematician

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/prestigious-fellowship-awarded-to-leicester-mathematician

  Dr Sibylle Schroll from our Department of Mathematics has been awarded a prestigious £1 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Early Career Fellowship to realise her ambitious research program on 'Graphs in Representation Theory'.

• Heather Couper (1949-2020)

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/20-heather-couper

  Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest at the unveiling of the Rattray Lecture Theatre's astronomical clock in 1989.

• Karis Wainaina

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/karis-wainaina

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• Mars Science Laboratory Blog

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/04/27/27th-april-2017-sol-1679/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 27, 2017 After 4.5 years, 16.2 km of driving and 1679 martian days (sols) the Curiosity Rover has reached the point here we are starting to leave the Bagnold dunes in Gale Crater.

• 24th July 2017 Sol 1765 Solar Conjunction

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/07/24/24th-july-2017-sol-1765-solar-conjunction/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 24, 2017 No new photos from Mars Science laboratory. Why? We have reached Solar Conjunction – this is the time in the planets’ orbits when Mars is obscured from the Earth by the Sun.

• 12th September 2017 Sol 1814 – Curiosity’s View Across Gale Crater

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/09/12/12th-september-2017-sol-1814-curiositys-view-across-gale-crater/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 12, 2017 View from Vera Rubin Ridge   The Curiosity Rover has reached an elevation of 300 metres above our landing site.

• Friday 4th January 2013 Sol 147

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/04/friday-4th-january-2013-sol-147/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 4, 2013 Curiosity and the science and engineering teams are getting back up to full activity after the Christmas and New Year break.

• 30th May 2015 Sol 1000

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/05/30/30th-may-2015-sol-1000/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 30, 2015 An MSL landmark day.  We have reached 1000 sols on Mars.