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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 24th April 2014 Sol 610

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/04/24/24th-april-2014-sol-610/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 24, 2014 We have been doing contact science and taking images in order to zero in on our exact drill point at Mt. Remarkable.

• 27th October 2014 Sol 791

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/10/27/27th-october-2014-sol-791/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 27, 2014 You can see from the inset on this map that we have started driving again, south towards the higher ground, though in small distances compared to some of the long ~100 m drives we did earlier in the mission.

• 14th July 2014 Sol 688

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/07/14/14th-july-2014-sol-688/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 14, 2014 In addition to driving towards the Murray Buttes gap in the dunes, and our path onto Mt. Sharp, we stop sometimes to do contact science.  The image gives an example of what this entails.

• 11th March 2016 Sol 1278

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/11/11th-march-2016-sol-1278/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 11, 2016 In the last few days we have been finding these rounded cm-sized nodules on eroded faces of the underlying Stimson sandstone.