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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.

  • Wednesday 14th Nov 2012 Sol 98

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/14/14th-nov-2012-sol-98/

    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.

  • 14th March 2016 Sol 1282

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/14/14th-march-2016-sol-1282/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 14, 2016 Today the latest addition to the Mars mission flotilla was launched by ESA and Roscosmos.  Trace Gas Orbiter was launched on a Proton rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

  • Friday 31st August Sol 25

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/31/friday-31st-august-sol-25/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 31, 2012 We now have a weather report for Gale Crater courtesy of the REM instrument.

  • Sunday 9th September Sol 34

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/10/sunday-9th-september-sol-34/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 10, 2012 Just like in a terrestrial laboratory we have to analyse standards of known composition.

  • Thursday 4th October Sol 58

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/05/thursday-4th-october-sol-58/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 5, 2012   Previous missions suggest that the ‘soil’ on Mars is roughly basaltic in composition.  However, on Earth sand is mainly composed of quartz (silica).

  • Sunday 7th October Sol 61

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/08/sunday-7th-october-sol-61-1/

    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...

  • 28th September 2014 Sol 762

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/09/28/28th-september-2014-sol-762/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 28, 2014 Pahrump Hills Drillhole We have completed the mini and main drill holes, at the Confidence Hills locality in Pahrump Hills.  Over the weekend the drill powder is being sieved and transferred to CheMin.

  • 11th November 2014 Sol 806

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/11/11/11th-november-2014-sol-806/

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 11, 2014 Mars Science Laboratory has changed our view of Mars: following the 2 Viking landers of 1976 and the Pathfinder Lander in 1997 we had an idea that Mars was predominantly made of basaltic igneous rocks.

  • 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.

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