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• Sunday 9th September Sol 34

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/10/sunday-9th-september-sol-34/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 10, 2012 Just like in a terrestrial laboratory we have to analyse standards of known composition.

• 28th September 2014 Sol 762

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/09/28/28th-september-2014-sol-762/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 28, 2014 Pahrump Hills Drillhole We have completed the mini and main drill holes, at the Confidence Hills locality in Pahrump Hills.  Over the weekend the drill powder is being sieved and transferred to CheMin.

• Wednesday 14th Nov 2012 Sol 98

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/14/14th-nov-2012-sol-98/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 14, 2012 With its APXS (Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer) instrument on the robotic arm of Curiosity is measuring the composition of rocks and soil at Rocknest.

• 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.

• Sunday 7th October Sol 61

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/08/sunday-7th-october-sol-61-1/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 8, 2012 One of the major challenges in preparing a spacecraft for Mars is ensuring that the chemical analyses made by the instruments, in particular for the SAM mass spectrometer are not contaminated by material...

• 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.

• Spying on Curiosity and Detecting Methane above the Clay Unit in Gale Crater Sol 2424

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2019/06/27/spying-on-curiosity-and-detecting-methane-above-the-clay-unit-in-gale-crater-sol-2424/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 27, 2019 Around this locality in the Clay Unit of Gale Crater we have  been doing more methane measurements with the SAM instrument. This highlights the enigmatic nature of Mars’ atmospheric methane.

• An Interview with DiscoverPhDs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/08/03/an-interview-with-discoverphds/

  Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 3 August 2020 Leicester physicist interviewed by DiscoverPhDs to help future PhD students, written by Harneet Sangha. One of our final year PhD students, Harneet Sangha, was recently interviewed by online platform DiscoverPhDs.

• Thursday 29th November Sol 112

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/29/thursday-29th-november-sol-112/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 29, 2012 Our next major task is to select a suitable place for the first drilling operation using high resolution MastCam images that we have been taking.

• Monday 20th August Sol 15

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/21/monday-20th-august-sol-15/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 21, 2012 The robotic arm has been moved for the first time.  This is the 70 kg instrument which carries the X-ray spectrometer and close up imager MAHLI.