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• 13th April 2015 Sol 955

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/04/13/13th-april-2015-sol-955/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 13, 2015 We have left Garden City and are commencing a week of driving.  This also marks 10 km on the odometer, at up to 100 m a day we can travel quite quickly.

• 30th June 2015 Sol 1030

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/06/30/30th-june-2015-sol-1030/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 30, 2015 Planetary conjunction has ended and communication of science results between Curiosity , Mars orbiters and Earth is possible again.

• 17th July 2015 Sol 1047

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/07/17/17th-july-2015-sol-1047/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 17, 2015 The science team is considering the next drill target. ChemCam and APXS results suggest that the sediment compositions are changing within the Murray Formation, with more altered compositions.

• 19th July 2016 Sol 1405

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/07/19/19th-july-2016-sol-1405/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 19, 2016 MSL is back and working as normal. This MastCam picture shows that even at this early stage of the dust season (ls = 190 ie we haven’t reached perihelion of Mars orbit yet) the crater rim is becoming obscured.

• 12th August 2016 Sol 1428

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/08/12/12th-august-2016-sol-1428/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 12, 2016 Our latest drill hole – Marimba – has a distinctly reddish colour.  This probably means it has a lot of ferric oxide in it.

• 2nd October 2013 Sol 411

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/02/2nd-october-2013-sol-411/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2013 Mars Science Laboratory is having a team meeting at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California.

• 23rd February 2015 Sol 907

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/02/23/23rd-february-2015-sol-907/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 23, 2015 Our next drill target is Telegraph_Peak.

• 9th September 2016 Sol 1455

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/09/09/9th-september-2016-sol-1455/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 9, 2016 We are heading toward a new drill site at the base of one the the buttes.  These are the landforms that dominate the landscape at this point in the traverse – The Murray Buttes.

• 13th December 2016 Sol 1548

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/12/13/13th-december-2016-sol-1548/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 13, 2016 The Precipice drilling campaign has been curtailed because of a drill fault. The MSL rover engineers have been conducting a series of diagnostic tests to determine the cause and to prevent it happening again.

• 21st January 2015 Sol 875

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/01/21/21st-january-2015-sol-875/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 21, 2015 The MSL science operations have stood down for a few days whilst a software upgrade goes ahead.  Soon we will recommence the drilling campaign.