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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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 29th November 2016 Sol 1534

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/11/29/29th-november-2016-sol-1534-1/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 29, 2016 We have started our 19th drill or scoop.  Curiosity now aims to drill at regular elevation intervals (25 m) as we progress up through the Murray formation.

  • Emma Bunce Discusses Planetary Missions on RAS podcast

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/01/prof-bunce-interviewed-for-ras-podcast/

    Posted by slc25 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 1 October 2020 “I think I would probably go back in time and pick Voyager… “ Our Head of School, and President of the Royal Astronomical Society Prof.

  • Fiendish Friday Quiz #1: Answers

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/14/fiendish-friday-quiz-1-answers/

    Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on March 14, 2014 Drumroll please… answers to Thomas Gribble’s first Waugh quiz can be found below. Let us know how you got on, then try out #2.

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