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Juno and Hubble data reveal electromagnetic ‘tug-of-war’ lights up Jupiter’s upper atmosphere
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/jupiter-tug-of-war
Dr Jonathan Nichols is a Reader in Planetary Auroras at the University of Leicester and corresponding author for the study.
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Juno and Hubble data reveal electromagnetic ‘tug-of-war’ lights up Jupiter’s upper atmosphere
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/02/03/juno-and-hubble-data-reveal-electromagnetic-tug-of-war-lights-up-jupiters-upper-atmosphere/
New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex ‘tug-of-war’ lights up aurorae in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NASA’s Juno probe and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Friday 4th January 2013 Sol 147
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/04/friday-4th-january-2013-sol-147/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 4, 2013 Curiosity and the science and engineering teams are getting back up to full activity after the Christmas and New Year break.
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Tuesday 22nd January 2013 Sol 166
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/22/tuesday-22nd-january-2013-sol-166/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 22, 2013 This close up view of one of the veins was taken as an RMI image by one of the two ChemCam lasers after the Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).
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3rd April 2015 Sol 945
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/04/03/3rd-april-2015-sol-945/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 3, 2015 The heavy noble gases argon, krypton and xenon are known for their non-reactive nature and on Earth used for many applications where a gas is needed to protect a surface from the reactive species in...
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17th December 2014 Sol 840
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/12/17/17th-december-2014-sol-840/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 17, 2014 I am at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco. The big MSL news here is the publication of our discovery of methane in the martian atmosphere.
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Leicester Heroes event smashes record number of stem cell sign-ups in one drive
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-heroes-event-smashes-record-number-of-stem-cell-sign-ups-in-one-drive
A record number of sign-ups to a stem cell register has been achieved at an event on the University of Leicester campus.
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Thursday 6th December Sol 119
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/06/thursday-6th-december-sol-119/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 6, 2012 NASA HQ have announced that the mission lifetime of MSL has been extended indefinitely, beyond the current one martian year (2 terrestrial years).
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Student and alumnus to take on 3100 mile trek across the USA
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/student-and-alumnus-to-take-on-3-100-mile-trek-across-the-usa
Two amateur hikers from our University are daring to take on a gruelling walk across the diverse landscape of the United States, documenting the extraordinary environments that they travel through.
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Friday 25th January 2013 Sol 168
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/25/friday-25th-january-2013-sol-168/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 25, 2013 One of the features of the MAHLI microimager is that it has a set of LED lights around the lens aperture.