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• Friday 28th September Sol 52

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/28/friday-28th-september-sol-52-1/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 28, 2012 A group us have been on a field trip between the San Andreas and San Gabriel faults, about an hour’s drive north of JPL.

• March 20th 2013 Sol 221

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  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

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  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.

• Wednesday 14th Nov 2012 Sol 98

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  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.

• 29th August 2013 Sol 378

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  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 29, 2013 We are now about 300 m from Waypoint1.  That is one of the stopping off points on the way to the clay-rich horizon of Mt. Sharp.

• 28th October 2013 Sol 436

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  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 28, 2013 Today is a soliday on Mars and no science activities.  We are parked close to our next Waypoint called Cooperstown.

• Sunday 7th October Sol 61

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  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 8, 2012 One of the major challenges in preparing a spacecraft for Mars is ensuring that the chemical analyses made by the instruments, in particular for the SAM mass spectrometer are not contaminated by material...

• Monday 20th August Sol 15

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/21/monday-20th-august-sol-15/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 21, 2012 The robotic arm has been moved for the first time.  This is the 70 kg instrument which carries the X-ray spectrometer and close up imager MAHLI.

• eulus

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  Who Cares for Academics? Posted by eulus in School of Business Blog on May 6, 2016   In this blog, Eda Ulus and Charlotte Smith ask us to think about academics and whether they are allowed to express emotion.

• 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.