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• Thursday 29th November Sol 112

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/29/thursday-29th-november-sol-112/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 29, 2012 Our next major task is to select a suitable place for the first drilling operation using high resolution MastCam images that we have been taking.

• 12th July 2013 Sol 332

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/12/12th-july-2013-sol-332/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 12, 2013 Operations week at Toulouse is coming to an end and is switching back to the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.  In Toulouse the opeations centre is housed by the French Space Agency CNES.

• 29th August 2013 Sol 378

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/29/29th-august-2013-sol-378/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 29, 2013 We are now about 300 m from Waypoint1.  That is one of the stopping off points on the way to the clay-rich horizon of Mt. Sharp.

• 28th October 2013 Sol 436

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/28/28th-october-2013-sol-436/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 28, 2013 Today is a soliday on Mars and no science activities.  We are parked close to our next Waypoint called Cooperstown.

• eulus

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/eulus/

  Who Cares for Academics? Posted by eulus in School of Business Blog on May 6, 2016   In this blog, Eda Ulus and Charlotte Smith ask us to think about academics and whether they are allowed to express emotion.

• Roger Irwin

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/author/ri40/

  DPhil student in English - Linacre College, Oxford University

• 25th March 2015 Sol 936

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/03/25/25th-march-2015-sol-936/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 25, 2015 This MAHLI image (field of view about 20 cm) shows how water has travelled through the Garden City mudstone rock.  It has left trails in veins – probably of gypsum or a similar mineral.

• 29th October 2015 Sol 1148

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/10/29/29th-october-2015-sol-1148/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 29, 2015 We have completed another drill so that we now have the Big Sky and Greenhorn drill holes. As the team becomes more experienced we are getting quicker at producing drillholes and so we can get more analyses.

• March 20th 2013 Sol 221

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/03/20/march-20th-2013-sol-221/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 20, 2013 On April 18 th there will be a Mars solar conjunction, when Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun.  This occurs every 26 months ie the length of the Mars year.

• Thursday 4th October Sol 58

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/05/thursday-4th-october-sol-58/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 5, 2012   Previous missions suggest that the ‘soil’ on Mars is roughly basaltic in composition.  However, on Earth sand is mainly composed of quartz (silica).