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  • 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.

  • Thursday 20th December Sol 133

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 20, 2012 Curiosity and its team will soon take a break over the Christmas holidays .  However in the meantime we are using the opportunity to examine different parts of Yellowknife and its rocks.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Wednesday 8th August Sol2

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 8, 2012 The first MastCam images are coming back.  Thats another milestone as the 2 m high mast is now in position.  Now is the time that we start suggesting experiments.

  • Saturday 18th August Sol 13

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 19, 2012 In order to keep track of time, both on Earth and Mars, a few people on the MSL team wear 2 watches.  That is a clear sign that someone at JPL is working on the MSL mission.

  • 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.

  • Friday 12th October Sol 66

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 13, 2012 While we work at Rocknest with scooping, imaging and analyses, we take the chance to look down into Glenelg.

  • Tuesday 15th January 2013 Sol 159

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 15, 2013 We are finding more veins and white nodules across the drill  target area (called John Klein) and in our surrounding area.

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