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13th November 2013 Sol 453
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/11/13/13th-november-2013-sol-453/
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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15th May 2014 Sol 630
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/05/15/15th-may-2014-sol-630/
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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15th February 2016 Sol 1254
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/02/15/15th-february-2016-sol-1254/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 15, 2016 We have now started driving away from the main Namib dunes, and onto the Naukluft Plateau.
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25th February 2015 Sol 908
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/02/25/25th-february-2015-sol-908/
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.
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Breakthrough in fuel cell recycling turns ‘forever chemicals’ into renewable resources
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/breakthrough-fuel-cell-recycling-forever-chemicals-renewable
University of Leicester scientists develop technique using soundwaves to separate materials in fuel cells in seconds
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...
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Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch
MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...
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19th July 2016 Sol 1405
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/07/19/19th-july-2016-sol-1405/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 19, 2016 MSL is back and working as normal. This MastCam picture shows that even at this early stage of the dust season (ls = 190 ie we haven’t reached perihelion of Mars orbit yet) the crater rim is becoming obscured.
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12th August 2016 Sol 1428
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/08/12/12th-august-2016-sol-1428/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 12, 2016 Our latest drill hole – Marimba – has a distinctly reddish colour. This probably means it has a lot of ferric oxide in it.
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4th October 2016 Sol 1480
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/10/04/4th-october-2016-sol-1480/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 4, 2016 This MAHLI mosaic view of Curiosity and Murray Butte no. 12 is where we have just been drilling Quela – the 14th drillhole on Mars.