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• 19th October 2014 Sol 783

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/10/19/19th-october-2014-sol-783/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 19, 2014 Today marks the closest approach of Comet Siding Spring to Mars.  Curiosity will be pointing MastCam and ChemCam towards it, and have been practising targeting  at stars like Spica.

• 18th January 2015 Sol 872

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/01/18/18th-january-2015-sol-872/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 18, 2015 Unlike Curiosity the Beagle2 lander never sent a signal back from Mars.  However, as a result of some new HiRISE images we now know where it is and what happened.

• National Space Centre Lockdown Thematic Weeks

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/05/12/national-space-centre-lockdown-thematic-weeks/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 12 May 2020 During the 2020 lockdown, the National Space Centre continued to engage a national audience with their space-themes videos.

• Friday 10th August Sol 4

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/10/friday-10th-august-sol-4/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 10, 2012 The first full resolution Mastcam panorama is coming through.  It will take a few sols for it to fully download from Mars.  Fantastic detail of Mt. Sharp and ground surface leading up to it.

• Sunday 3rd September Sol 27

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/03/sunday-3rd-september-sol-27/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 3, 2012 We have had our first day off, done by planning two sols at once.  In the meantime we discuss the results so far and enjoy some of the NavCam images from Sol 26.

• Friday 19th October Sol 72

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/19/friday-19th-october-sol-72/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 19, 2012 One of the main aims of the scoops has been to get soils and dust of suitable fine grained size for the X-ray diffraction experiment – CHEMIN.  We are waiting with excitement for the first results.

• 22nd August 2013 Sol 371

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/22/22nd-august-2013-sol-371/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 22, 2013 Mars has two moons Phobos – about 22km diameter, and Deimos which is about half that.  MastCam has recently imaged an occultation where Phobos passed in front of the more distant Deimos.

• 24th January 2014 Sol 522

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/01/24/24th-january-2014-sol-522/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 24, 2014 The Science Magazine papers about Yellowknife Bay have just been published: http://www.sciencemag.

• 4th June 210 Sol 651

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/06/04/4th-june-210-sol-651/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 4, 2014 A new role for me as I join the HiRISE camera team for an operations/image selection role for the first time.

• Beginning with the end in mind

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2015/10/13/beginning-with-the-end-in-mind/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on October 13, 2015 Another academic year has begun and for those doing research degrees, there will be significant stages to be faced in their PhD journey.