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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.

• 25th September 2013 Sol 404

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/09/25/25th-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.

• Saturday 25th August Sol 19

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/26/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

  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.

• 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.

• 6th April 2014 Sol 622

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/05/06/6th-april-2014-sol-623/

  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.

• Astrophotography Competition Time – AstRoSoc Calendar

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/02/26/astrophotography-competition-time-astrosoc-calendar/

  AstroSoc Competition

• 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.

• 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.