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1st November 2013 Sol 439
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/11/01/1st-november-2013-sol-439/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 1, 2013 We have driven right up to the Cooperstown outcrop. The rdige (a few tens of cm high) is composed of a resistant layer of sedimentary rock.
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26th June 2013 Sol 316
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/06/26/26th-june-2013-sol-316/
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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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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“Of Ainu Women and Russian Prisoners: Listening for the Voice of the Other” University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/04/30/of-ainu-women-and-russian-prisoners-listening-for-the-voice-of-the-other/
Sakhalin, Bronislaw Pilsudski, political exile, Chufsamma, Ainu, indigenous tribes, prisoners, Ket, Fridtjof Nansen, Russian colonization, University of Leicester
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Solar System samples touch down in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/winchcombe-hayabusa2
Samples from other worlds have touched down in Leicester, to be analysed by space scientists studying the building blocks of our Solar System.
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11th March 2016 Sol 1278
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/11/11th-march-2016-sol-1278/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 11, 2016 In the last few days we have been finding these rounded cm-sized nodules on eroded faces of the underlying Stimson sandstone.
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July 5th 2013 Sol 324
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/05/july-5th-2013-sol-324/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 5, 2013 I am visiting the French ChemCam HQ in the CNRS lab based in Toulouse. Some of the development of ChemCam was done by the group here.
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17th February 2014 Sol 545
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/02/17/17th-february-2014-sol-545/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 17, 2014 As we approach a full martian year (669 sols) we have travelled about 5 km. There is fine tuning to be done on the route to get us relatively quickly to the clay and iron oxide concentrations in Mt.
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Thursday 20th September Sol 44
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/20/thursday-20th-september-sol-44/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 20, 2012 The image shows the shadows of Curiosity’s robotic arm and mast approaching our calibration rock.