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8th May 2014 Sol 624
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/05/08/8th-may-2014-sol-624/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 8, 2014 We have succesfully drilled Windjana and transferred the material to the CHIMRA system for CheMin analyses. Now we will be able to anslyes the tailings by ChemCam and APXS.
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1st October 2014 Sol 767
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/10/01/1st-october-2014-sol-767/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 1, 2014 This Left MastCam (‘M34’ because of the focal length) view shows the Pahrump drilled grains just before they are about to be sieved by closing up the scoop and sieve, then turning the whole robotic arm turret.
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University research supports project to gather air pollution data through space–enabled technology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/27-university-research-supports-project-to-gather-air-pollution-data
EarthSense – a joint venture between our University and aerial mapping company Bluesky – has provided detailed air pollution data in near real time for Bicester
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Lift-off for Sentinel-3B climate satellite for real time data
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/lift-off-for-sentinel-3b-climate-satellite-for-real-time-data
Scientists at the National Centre of Earth Observation (NCEO) today welcomed the successful launch of the newest satellite in Europe’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-3B.
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Philip Larkin memorial to join literary greats in Westminster Abbey on 31st anniversary of his death
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/philip-larkin-memorial-to-join-literary-greats-in-westminster-abbey-on-31st-anniversary-of-his-death
A memorial stone to the poet Philip Larkin, inscribed with lines from one of his most famous works An Arundel Tomb – “our almost instinct almost true/What will survive of us is love” – will be unveiled in Westminster Abbey this evening, marking the 31st anniversary of his death.
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Joe Ortons plays to be retyped onto single sheet of paper to commemorate 50th anniversary of his death
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/joe-ortons-plays-to-be-retyped-onto-single-sheet-of-paper-to-commemorate-50th-anniversary-of-his-death
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton, performance artist Tim Youd will retype his Collected Plays on a single sheet of paper from 20 January to 5 February 2017.
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Local students begin to take their LEAP into University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/local-students-begin-to-take-their-leap-into-university
On Wednesday 21 January, the University welcomed 40 local school and college students onto campus to begin to take their LEAP into University at the launch of our new Leicester Enhanced Access Programme (LEAP).
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Festival examines what the anti-apartheid picket can teach human rights defenders
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/festival-examines-what-the-anti-apartheid-picket-can-teach-human-rights-defenders
Dr Gavin Brown from the Department of Geography will be giving a talk on Tuesday 8 December at 6.
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High praise for Leicester data mining teams research into trauma patient deaths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/high-praise-for-leicester-data-mining-team2019s-research-into-trauma-patient-deaths
A successful collaboration between the Leicester Applied Mathematics data mining team together with colleagues from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences examining mortality after trauma has been highlighted as ‘honoured’ and ‘esteemed’ by the journal Computers in Biology...
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12th May 2013 Sol 272
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/05/12/12th-may-2013-sol-272/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 12, 2013 Here is an image of the drillhole, and the tailings around it, taken by the MAHLI microimager on the robotic arm. In the tailings pile and within the hole (it is 1.