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13th October 2015 Sol 1133
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 13, 2015 Here is the latest selfie – perhaps the best yet. It is from the Big Sky drill site (you can see the Big Sky drill hole and the drill tailings) in the lower left.
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25th November 2014 Sol 819
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 25, 2014 We are continuing our detailed traverse around the Pahrump area. I will be Geo ScienceTheme Lead tomorrow and we aim to do more contact science. The MastCam image is of Book Cliffs.
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11th March 2016 Sol 1278
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 11, 2016 In the last few days we have been finding these rounded cm-sized nodules on eroded faces of the underlying Stimson sandstone.
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29th November 2016 Sol 1534
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 1, 1970 We have started our 19th drill or scoop. Curiosity now aims to drill at regular elevation intervals (25 m) as we progress up through the Murray formation.
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Monday 13th August Sol 7
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 12, 2012 One of the things that Curiosity carries is 1.2 million names from 246 countries together with student essays and letters from the jpl engineers who constructed Curiosity.
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Wednesday 15th August Sol 10
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 16, 2012 As we study images of places never seen before I get the full sense of the excitement of exploration that early explorers on Earth must have felt as they encountered new lands .
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Tuesday August 14th Sol 9
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 14, 2012 Barack Obama talked to the JPL engineering team yesterday and everyone else watched a video link of this.
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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.