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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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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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Legal drugs: all the pros and none of the cons?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/legal-drugs
Read the article "Legal drugs: all the pros and none of the cons?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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TEDxLeicester to take satellite technology one step beyond
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/tedxleicester-to-take-satellite-technology-2018one-step-beyond2019
Some of the innovative and cutting-edge applications that satellite technology and its data are being put to will be explored in a TEDxLeicester event in partnership with the University of Leicester and the National Space Centre.
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Potential new targets for cancer treatments identified by Leicester research team
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/potential-new-targets-for-cancer-treatments-identified-by-leicester-research-team
An international consortium of scientists led by a group from the University has announced a new advance in understanding the mechanisms of cancer and how to target it more effectively with new treatments.
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Tuesday 2nd October Sol 56
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/02/tuesday-2nd-october-sol-56/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2012 We are getting excellent close up images with MAHLI of the rocks underneath us at the rim of Glenelg. Soon we will pause to scoop a fine-grained sample for our XRD experiment.
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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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24th April 2016 Sol 1322
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/04/24/24th-april-2016-sol-1322/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 24, 2016 We have just completed our latest drillhole at Lubango.
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29th November 2016 Sol 1534
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/1970/01/01/29th-november-2016-sol-1534/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 1, 1970 We have started our 19th drill or scoop. Curiosity now aims to drill at regular elevation intervals (25 m) as we progress up through the Murray formation.