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• 24th April 2014 Sol 610

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/04/24/24th-april-2014-sol-610/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 24, 2014 We have been doing contact science and taking images in order to zero in on our exact drill point at Mt. Remarkable.

• Thursday 30th August Sol 24

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/30/thursday-30th-august-sol-24/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 30, 2012 We are settled into a daily routine which centres around the data returns from Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

• Thursday 6th September Sol 30

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/06/thursday-6th-september-sol-30/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 6, 2012 Telescopes on Earth need to measure ‘flat’ and ‘dark’ frames with every set of observations in order to correct for distortions on the telescope mirror and any false detections on the light detector.

• 18th June 2013 Sol 308

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/06/18/18th-june-2013-sol-308/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 18, 2013 I am taking my turn at being the GeoMin group theme lead this sol.  I am also the ChemCam science theme group member.

• 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.

• Sunday 30th September Sol53

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/29/sunday-30th-september-sol53/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 29, 2012 We are closer to the descent into the lower area of Glenelg.  The rock type around Curiosity has changed from the fluvial gravels and we are using the robotic arm to study it.

• 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.

• March 30th 2013 Sol 231

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/03/30/march-30th-2013-sol-231/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 30, 2013 We are now back to full operations after the software problems, and getting in observations prior to the planetary conjunction.

• 5th August 2013 Sol 355

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/05/5th-august-2013-sol-355/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2013 We are just about at the one Earth year anniversary of our landing.  MSL Landing was on the 5th August Pacific time and about 6 am, 6th August British Summertime.

• Tuesday 25th September Sol 49

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/25/tuesday-25th-september-sol-49/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 25, 2012 We are now getting a combination of the high resolution MAHLI images, APXS and ChemCam compositional data and the other camera images.