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21st December 2016 Sol 1556
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/12/21/21st-december-2016-sol-1556/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 21, 2016 I am Geo-Min Science theme lead for todays plan. As usual after 4 years of operations we are doing 3 sols of planning at one go.
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19th January 2017 Sol 1584
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/01/19/19th-january-2017-sol-1584/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 19, 2017 We have found another (the 4th) meteorite. The fist sized sample called Ames_Knob – which was analysed by ChemCam – turns out to be composed of Fe and Ni metal.
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20th September 2016 Sol 1466
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/09/20/20th-september-2016-sol-1466/
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
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/14/14th-august-2013-sol-363/
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
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/01/08/8th-january-2014-sol-506/
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
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/09/24/24th-september-2014-sol-758/
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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February 27th 2013 Sol 200
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/02/27/february-27th-2013-sol-200/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 27, 2013 We now have material within Curiosity for the SAM mass spectrometer and the CheMin X-ray Diffraction.
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Dr Ken Edwards
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/ken-edwards
Obituary notice for Dr Ken Edwards, former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leicester.
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Grant Bourhill to take new role
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/grant-bourhill
Grant Bourhill, Chief Executive Officer at Leicester Science Parks is to take up a new role as Managing Director for Surrey Research Park.
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Physics & Astronomy: Page 20
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/author/leigh_fletcher/page/20/
Nobel Prize: How Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysics Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 7 October 2020 The award of this year’s Nobel prize in physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and...