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  • Astrophotography Competition Time – AstRoSoc Calendar

    AstroSoc Competition

  • 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.

  • Saturday 25th August Sol 19

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 26, 2012 In the next few days we are expecting the first measurements by the SAM mass spectrometer instrument (inlet on the top surface of Curiosity) of the Mars atmosphere.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 6th April 2014 Sol 622

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 6, 2014 I am visiting Thurso, which is on the far north Scottish coast.  The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, associated with the Dounreay nuclear facility, invited me to give a talk about Curiosity.

  • Curiosity in Isolation at Edinburgh and Glasgow

    Curiosity Rover, Edinburgh locality, HiRISE image

  • National Astronomy Week: Our Modern View of Mars

    Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 10 November 2020 The RAS is putting on a  series of events, talks and online observing sessions for National Astronomy Week, and Professor John Bridges will be discussing our modern view of Mars on...

  • UKSA Space for All Grant

    UKSA Space for All Grant

  • 25th September 2013 Sol 404

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 25, 2013 We have now left Waypoint Point 1 and started out for Waypoint 2, at about 1 km distance.

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