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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 14th October 2013 Sol 424

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/14/october-14th-2013-sol-424/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 14, 2013 The noon to pre-dawn temperature variation at Gale Crater can be up to 90 degrees centigrade.   This MastCam image shows the effects of this extreme temperature variation.

• 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.

• 2nd November 2016 Sol 1508

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/11/02/2nd-november-2016-sol-1508/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 2, 2016 We have found an iron meteorite – called Egg Rock.  Curiosity was close enough to determine that it is composed of iron, with some nickel.

• 25th November 2014 Sol 819

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/11/25/25th-november-2014-sol-819/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 25, 2014 We are continuing our detailed traverse around the Pahrump area. I will be Geo ScienceTheme Lead tomorrow and we aim to do more contact science.  The MastCam image is of Book Cliffs.

• 11th March 2016 Sol 1278

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/11/11th-march-2016-sol-1278/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 11, 2016 In the last few days we have been finding these rounded cm-sized nodules on eroded faces of the underlying Stimson sandstone.