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• Wednesday 14th Nov 2012 Sol 98

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/14/14th-nov-2012-sol-98/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 14, 2012 With its APXS (Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer) instrument on the robotic arm of Curiosity is measuring the composition of rocks and soil at Rocknest.

• 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.

• February 10th Sol 182

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/02/10/february-10th-sol-182/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 10, 2013 The latest drilling has gone to 6 cm depth and we will use this for CheMin and SAM 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 12th May 2015 Sol 983

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/05/12/12th-may-2015-sol-983/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 12, 2015 A stunning image of sunset over the Gale Crater Rim!  The sort of long wavelength scattering so characteristic of our Earth’s red sunsets has not occurred. Ehlers et al.

• 21st May 2015 Sol 992

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/05/21/21st-may-2015-sol-992/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 21, 2015 In a  first for the mission we have successfully climbed a slope at Mt. Stimson.

• Spying on Curiosity and Detecting Methane above the Clay Unit in Gale Crater Sol 2424

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2019/06/27/spying-on-curiosity-and-detecting-methane-above-the-clay-unit-in-gale-crater-sol-2424/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 27, 2019 Around this locality in the Clay Unit of Gale Crater we have  been doing more methane measurements with the SAM instrument. This highlights the enigmatic nature of Mars’ atmospheric methane.

• 6th April 2014 Sol 622

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/05/06/6th-april-2014-sol-623/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 6, 2014 I am visiting Thurso, which is on the far north Scottish coast.  The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, associated with the Dounreay nuclear facility, invited me to give a talk about Curiosity.