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Staff and students team up for Go Green Week
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/staff-and-students-team-up-for-go-green-week
As part of the Environment Team’s Sustainable Development Programme, students have been asked to put on their eco hats and work on a number of environment and sustainability projects. Go Green Week is the culmination of many of those projects.
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Deck the halls with Christmas lights all the way to space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/18-deck-halls-christmas-lights-space
A house illuminated with Christmas lights|University of Leicester students have calculated how many Christmas lights are needed to decorate a house to be visible from space.
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Meet SpaceX Demo-2 Astronauts Bob and Doug – National Space Centre Q&A
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/01/20/meet-spacex-demo-2-astronauts-bob-and-doug-national-space-centre-qa/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 20 January 2021 Join our National Space Centre colleagues for a LIVE Space Astronaut Q&A with SpaceX Demo-2 Astronauts Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, this Friday 22 January 19:00-20:00.
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Friday 17th August Sol 12
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/18/friday-17th-august-sol-12/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 18, 2012 We have chosen our first long term direction for Curiosity – and it is going about 0.5 km towards the NE, to an important junction between 3 different rock types. The site has been named Glenelg.
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19th November 2013 Sol 459
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/11/19/19th-november-2013-sol-459/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 19, 2013 As we work in Gale Crater with Curiosity, other Mars missions are being planned and launched.
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Monday 19th Nov. Sol 103
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/19/monday-19th-nov-sol-103/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 19, 2012 The REMS instruments (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) on the rover mast has been sending back information about wind direction and atmospheric pressure over the last 100 sols.
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3rd March 2016 Sol 1271
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/03/03/3rd-march-2016-sol-1271/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 3, 2016 Every year, much of the planetary science community gather at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference in Houston.
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1st February 2018 Sol 1952 Vera Rubin Ridge and Scotland on Mars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/02/01/1st-february-2018-sol-1952-vera-rubin-ridge-and-scotland-on-mars/
Mars Science Laboratory
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Professor Mick Peake awarded OBE
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/professor-mick-peake-awarded-obe
Professor Michael (Mick) Peake has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to medicine.
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Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning
Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct ‘fossil monster’ that lived half a billion years ago, filling a gap in our understanding of the evolution of arthropods such as insects...