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  • 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.

  • 8th October 2013 Sol 417

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 8, 2013 Our last drive was about 85 m away from  Waypoint 1 towards the SW.  As we progress one of the new ways we image the landscape is with the MAHLI microimager.

  • 18th March 2014 Sol 574

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 18, 2014 Quite a lot of the science team is at the 45th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference in Houston.

  • 2nd November 2014 Sol 797

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 2, 2014 This NavCam image shows one of the outcrops we have been analysing in detail at the Chinle outcrop in Pahrump.

  • 18th July 2013 Sol 337

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 18, 2013 We are getting into the new routine of driving e.g. 30 or 40 m per day together with science observations, in particular from the mast instruments.

  • 15th March 2015 Sol 926

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 15, 2015 We have started moving off from Pahrump, towards our next main Waypoint at Artist’s Drive.  This remarkable site of large sulfate veins is in front of us at Garden City.

  • Friday 31st August Sol 25

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 31, 2012 We now have a weather report for Gale Crater courtesy of the REM instrument.

  • Tuesday 22nd January 2013 Sol 166

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 22, 2013 This close up view of one of the veins was taken as an RMI image by one of the two ChemCam lasers after the Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).

  • Sunday August 19th Sol 14

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 20, 2012 Excellent ChemCam  LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Results) on our first rock.  This means that in addition to imaging data from MastCam we are now getting compositional data.

  • February 7th 2013 Sol 180

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 7, 2013 Our latest drilling activity is shown in this Mahli image.  The circular drilled hole is 1.

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