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  • 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.

  • Monday 13th August Sol 7

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/12/monday-13th-august-sol-7/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 12, 2012 One of the things that Curiosity carries is 1.2 million names from 246 countries together with student essays and letters from  the jpl engineers who constructed Curiosity.

  • Wednesday 15th August Sol 10

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/16/wednesday-15th-august-sol-10/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 16, 2012 As we study images of places never seen before I get the full  sense of the excitement of exploration that early explorers on Earth must have felt as they encountered new lands .

  • 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.

  • 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 August 14th Sol 9

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/14/tuesday-august-14th-sol-9/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 14, 2012 Barack Obama talked to the JPL engineering team yesterday and everyone else watched a video link of this.

  • 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.

  • 16th August 2016 Sol 1432

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/08/16/16th-august-2016-sol-1432/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 16, 2016 The Veins of Mars The Veins of Mars Dr Samuel Illingworth of Manchester Metropolitan University has written a poem about the sulphate veins on Mars that we have just published about in Meteoritics and...

  • 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.

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