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• Sunday 9th September Sol 34

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  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.

• Sunday August 19th Sol 14

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  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 20, 2012 Excellent ChemCam  LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Results) on our first rock.  This means that in addition to imaging data from MastCam we are now getting compositional data.

• Sunday 7th October Sol 61

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  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 20th 2013 Sol 221

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  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

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  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.

• Thursday 4th October Sol 58

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  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).

• 29th October 2015 Sol 1148

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  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.

• Wednesday 14th Nov 2012 Sol 98

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  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.

• Friday 28th September Sol 52

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  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.

• 28th September 2014 Sol 762

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  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.