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  • 11th November 2014 Sol 806

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/11/11/11th-november-2014-sol-806/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 11, 2014 Mars Science Laboratory has changed our view of Mars: following the 2 Viking landers of 1976 and the Pathfinder Lander in 1997 we had an idea that Mars was predominantly made of basaltic igneous rocks.

  • 14th March 2016 Sol 1282

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/14/14th-march-2016-sol-1282/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 14, 2016 Today the latest addition to the Mars mission flotilla was launched by ESA and Roscosmos.  Trace Gas Orbiter was launched on a Proton rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

  • March 7th 2013 Sol 208

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/03/07/march-7th-2013-sol-210/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 7, 2013 A natural hazard for all spacecraft, including MSL, is currently at Mars.  On March 5th there was a large solar flare or ‘Coronal Mass Ejection’.

  • February 10th Sol 182

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/02/10/february-10th-sol-182/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 10, 2013 The latest drilling has gone to 6 cm depth and we will use this for CheMin and SAM analyses.

  • 29th August 2013 Sol 378

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/29/29th-august-2013-sol-378/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 29, 2013 We are now about 300 m from Waypoint1.  That is one of the stopping off points on the way to the clay-rich horizon of Mt. Sharp.

  • 28th October 2013 Sol 436

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/28/28th-october-2013-sol-436/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 28, 2013 Today is a soliday on Mars and no science activities.  We are parked close to our next Waypoint called Cooperstown.

  • Sol 2039 1st May 2018 Unique Samples from the Deep Martian Crust

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/05/01/sol-2039-1st-may-2018-unique-samples-from-the-deep-martian-crust/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 1, 2018 We have recently come across a unique set of samples from the deeper crust of Mars, kilometres below what was the Gale Lake 4 billion years ago.

  • Roger Irwin

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/author/ri40/

    DPhil student in English - Linacre College, Oxford University

  • 25th March 2015 Sol 936

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/03/25/25th-march-2015-sol-936/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 25, 2015 This MAHLI image (field of view about 20 cm) shows how water has travelled through the Garden City mudstone rock.  It has left trails in veins – probably of gypsum or a similar mineral.

  • 29th October 2015 Sol 1148

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/10/29/29th-october-2015-sol-1148/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 29, 2015 We have completed another drill so that we now have the Big Sky and Greenhorn drill holes. As the team becomes more experienced we are getting quicker at producing drillholes and so we can get more analyses.

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