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26th June 2013 Sol 316
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 26, 2013 Curiosity Inspecting Shaler. This HazCam image shows our location at Shaler and the tracks left as we have manoeuvred along the outcrop to look at the planar and cross bedding structures.
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20th September 2016 Sol 1466
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 20, 2016 We have got down a new self portrait of Curiosity from MAHLI. This shows the Murray Butte number 12 – where we have just been drilling – in the ChemCam mirror.
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14th August 2013 Sol 363
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 14, 2013 We have put a sample from the Cumberland drill hole into SAM for more isotopic measurements. The sample had been cached within the robotic arm’s turret.
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8th January 2014 Sol 506
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 8, 2014 Its Stargazing Live at University of Leicester today.
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24th September 2014 Sol 758
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 24, 2014 We are drilling at Pahrump (named after an old Shoshone, native American settlement in what is now Nevada).
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Sol 1 Monday 7th August
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 7, 2012 Mars Reconaissance Orbiter Image of Curiosity Descent. Good news from ChemCam PI Roger Wiens ‘All Systems are Go’.
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24th June 2014 Sol 669
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 24, 2014 It is sol 669 and this equals 1 martian year since our landing in August 2012. At the moment we are doing a lot of driving – frequently over 100 m per day in this phase of the mission.
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Wednesday 14th Nov 2012 Sol 98
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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.
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Sunday 4th Nov 2012 Sol 88
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 4, 2012 Research into trace gases in the Mars atmosphere, for instance ground based studies of the martian atmosphere, have suggested that tens of parts per billion of the molecules might be methane.
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Tuesday 23rd October Sol 76
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 23, 2012 We have reached the fourth scoop of material for CHEMIN and the SAM mass spectrometer, so steadily we are building analyses that will help us reach the goals of our mission.