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Friday 17th August Sol 12
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 18, 2012 We have chosen our first long term direction for Curiosity – and it is going about 0.5 km towards the NE, to an important junction between 3 different rock types. The site has been named Glenelg.
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Monday 19th Nov. Sol 103
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 19, 2012 The REMS instruments (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) on the rover mast has been sending back information about wind direction and atmospheric pressure over the last 100 sols.
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24th July 2017 Sol 1765 Solar Conjunction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/07/24/24th-july-2017-sol-1765-solar-conjunction/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 24, 2017 No new photos from Mars Science laboratory. Why? We have reached Solar Conjunction – this is the time in the planets’ orbits when Mars is obscured from the Earth by the Sun.
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19th November 2013 Sol 459
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/11/19/19th-november-2013-sol-459/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 19, 2013 As we work in Gale Crater with Curiosity, other Mars missions are being planned and launched.
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Monday 15th October Sol 69
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/15/monday-15th-october-sol-69/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 15, 2012 As we are currently static in Rocknest the use of the Mast instruments comes to the fore. In particular, ChemCam is important. ChemCam uses a laser to hit rocks at a distance of metres away.
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3rd March 2016 Sol 1271
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/03/3rd-march-2016-sol-1271/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 3, 2016 Every year, much of the planetary science community gather at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference in Houston.
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Mars Science Laboratory Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 15
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/page/15/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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17th December 2014 Sol 840
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/12/17/17th-december-2014-sol-840/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 17, 2014 I am at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco. The big MSL news here is the publication of our discovery of methane in the martian atmosphere.
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Monday 7th January 2013 Sol 150
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/07/monday-7th-january-2013-sol-150/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 7, 2013 The recent images of sedimentary rocks at Yellowknife are creating a lot of interest within and beyond the MSL science team.
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jbridges: Page 29
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/29/
This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards...I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions.