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• 29th October 2015 Sol 1148

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/10/29/29th-october-2015-sol-1148/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 29, 2015 We have completed another drill so that we now have the Big Sky and Greenhorn drill holes. As the team becomes more experienced we are getting quicker at producing drillholes and so we can get more analyses.

• March 20th 2013 Sol 221

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/03/20/march-20th-2013-sol-221/

  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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/12/12th-july-2013-sol-332/

  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.

• 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.

• 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...

• March 7th 2013 Sol 208

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/03/07/march-7th-2013-sol-210/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 7, 2013 A natural hazard for all spacecraft, including MSL, is currently at Mars.  On March 5th there was a large solar flare or ‘Coronal Mass Ejection’.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).