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• 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.

• Friday 12th October Sol 66

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/13/friday-13th-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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/15/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.

• Wednesday 8th August Sol2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/08/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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/19/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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.