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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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’.

  • 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...

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