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July 5th 2013 Sol 324
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 5, 2013 I am visiting the French ChemCam HQ in the CNRS lab based in Toulouse. Some of the development of ChemCam was done by the group here.
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30th July 2015 Sol 1059
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 30, 2015 We have started drilling at Belkin, first a minidrill hole before the main drill hole. Belkin has been chosen because this sedimentary horizon has some very high silica enrichments.
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15th June 2013 Sol 305
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 15, 2013 This is a NavCam image showing that we have successfully placed the robotic arm turret against this Point Lake outcrop in order to get MAHLI imagery and an APXS analysis.
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30th May 2015 Sol 1000
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 30, 2015 An MSL landmark day. We have reached 1000 sols on Mars.
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17th February 2014 Sol 545
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 17, 2014 As we approach a full martian year (669 sols) we have travelled about 5 km. There is fine tuning to be done on the route to get us relatively quickly to the clay and iron oxide concentrations in Mt.
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The University of Leicester to take part in ERA 2 Initiative
https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/the-university-of-leicester-to-take-part-in-era-2-initiative
The University of Leicester School of Chemistry and the Materials Centre are to take part in the new Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) initiative, ERA-2.
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13th November 2013 Sol 453
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 13, 2013 We have restarted science operations again after the software upload taking longer than expected.
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Thursday 20th September Sol 44
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 20, 2012 The image shows the shadows of Curiosity’s robotic arm and mast approaching our calibration rock.
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15th May 2014 Sol 630
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 15, 2014 As you can see from this NavCam image we are now driving away from Mt Remarkable.
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25th February 2015 Sol 908
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 25, 2015 Here is the latest, spectacular MAHLI selfie, made from a mosaic of the microscope imager pictures in January shortly befroe we drilled Mojave2.