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• Tuesday 18th September Sol 42

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/18/tuesday-18th-september-sol-42/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 18, 2012 We have paused to take a panorama of the landscape: Mt Sharp, crater walls and local terrain before we descend into GlenElg.  This could be one of the most dramatic landscape photographs of the mission.

• Saturday 27th October Sol 80

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/27/saturday-27th-october-sol-80/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 27, 2012   The Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory contains the ‘Scarecrow’ Curiosity rover, used to test going over obstacles and up slopes.

• Friday 25th January 2013 Sol 168

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/25/friday-25th-january-2013-sol-168/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 25, 2013 One of the features of the MAHLI microimager is that it has a set of LED lights around the lens aperture.

• April 19th 2013 Sol 250

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/04/19/april-19th-2013-sol-250/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 19, 2013 Even though Curiosity and its robotic arm are parked during Conjunction, the thermal control system continues to operate.

• 21st May 2015 Sol 992

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/05/21/21st-may-2015-sol-992/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 21, 2015 In a  first for the mission we have successfully climbed a slope at Mt. Stimson.

• 2nd July 2014 Sol 678

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/07/02/2nd-july-2014-sol-678/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 2, 2014 Here is a new classic image from Mars: a selfie from Kimberley.  You can see the dark drill hole and the practice drill hole beside it.

• Wednesday 26th September Sol 50

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/26/wednesday-26th-september-sol-50/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 26, 2012 We have travelled 50 metres in one sol, a new record and a great help for achieving the mission aims. We are also considering data on our calibration rock target.

• 22nd March 2018 Sol 2000

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/03/22/22nd-march-2018-sol-2000/

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• Triple shortlisting for Leicester in the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/times-higher-education-shortlisted-leicester

  The University of Leicester has been shortlisted in three categories at the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2025 which recognise excellence and innovation across the UK higher education sector.

• Innovative counter terrorism initiative sees one in three success rate for stop and search

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/17-servator

  An innovative police counter terrorism initiative has seen a rise in the effectiveness of stop and search tactics, new research by the University of Leicester reveals.