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  • Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed

    The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.

  • Monday 3rd December Sol 116

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/03/monday-3rd-december-sol-116/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 3, 2012 Some of the early results from Curiosity are being presented this week at the American Geophysical Union.

  • Sunday 30th December Sol 143

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/30/sunday-30th-december-sol-143/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 30, 2012 Gale Crater is named after Walter Frederick Gale, an Australian astronomer in the early 20 th century (1865-1945).

  • 19th July 2013 Sol 338

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/19/19th-july-2013-sol-338/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 19, 2013 The first results of the atmospheric analyses have been published this week in Science Magazine.

  • 10th November 2017 Sol 1871 – Scottish Quadrangle on Mars

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/11/10/10th-november-2017-sol-1871-scottish-quadrangle-on-mars/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 10, 2017 The field area for Curiosity along its traverse (currently nearly 18 km) is divided into a series of map qaudrangles. Each of these has outcrop and feature names based on a region of Earth e.g.

  • Monday 15th October Sol 69

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/15/monday-15th-october-sol-69/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 15, 2012 As we are currently static in Rocknest the use of the Mast instruments comes to the fore.  In particular, ChemCam is important.  ChemCam uses a laser to hit rocks at a distance of metres away.

  • 8th September 2013 Sol 388

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/09/08/8th-september-2013-sol-388/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 8, 2013 In our last main drive we managed 140 m in one sol! This means we will get to Waypoint 1 more quickly than expected.

  • Monday 7th January 2013 Sol 150

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/07/monday-7th-january-2013-sol-150/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 7, 2013 The recent images of sedimentary rocks at Yellowknife are creating a lot of interest within and beyond the MSL science team.

  • 3rd March 2016 Sol 1271

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/03/3rd-march-2016-sol-1271/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 3, 2016 Every year, much of the planetary science community gather at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference in Houston.

  • Leicester’s role in historic Mars mission revealed 20 years on

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/beagle-2-talk

    The history of the Beagle 2 mission to mars is recounted by the University of Leicester's Professor Mark Sims, who served as Mission Manager

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