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  • 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.

  • Sunday 5th August. Landing Day.

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/05/sunday-5th-august-landing-day/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2012 I get up to a beautiful day in California with humming birds feeding and clear views of the San Gabriel Mountains. We will have a final MSL team briefing  tonight at 9 pm PDT.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 .

  • 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.

  • Thursday 20th December Sol 133

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/20/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

    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.

  • July 5th 2013 Sol 324

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/05/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

    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.

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