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Tuesday 2nd October Sol 56
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2012 We are getting excellent close up images with MAHLI of the rocks underneath us at the rim of Glenelg. Soon we will pause to scoop a fine-grained sample for our XRD experiment.
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July 5th 2013 Sol 324
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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.
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17th February 2014 Sol 545
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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.
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24th April 2016 Sol 1322
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 24, 2016 We have just completed our latest drillhole at Lubango.
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March 30th 2013 Sol 231
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 30, 2013 We are now back to full operations after the software problems, and getting in observations prior to the planetary conjunction.
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5th August 2013 Sol 355
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2013 We are just about at the one Earth year anniversary of our landing. MSL Landing was on the 5th August Pacific time and about 6 am, 6th August British Summertime.
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27th October 2014 Sol 791
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 27, 2014 You can see from the inset on this map that we have started driving again, south towards the higher ground, though in small distances compared to some of the long ~100 m drives we did earlier in the mission.
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Sunday 23rd September Sol 47
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 23, 2012 Mankind versus Machine #2 The robotic arm is over the calibration rock Jake_ Matijevic.
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12th June 2013 Sol 302
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 12, 2013 We are carefully positioning ourselves for Point Lake.
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30th October 2013 Sol 438
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 30, 2013 We have now reached Waypoint 2 – Cooperstown, 4 km from our starting point at Bradbury Landing.