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Thursday 29th November Sol 112
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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.
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12th May 2015 Sol 983
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 12, 2015 A stunning image of sunset over the Gale Crater Rim! The sort of long wavelength scattering so characteristic of our Earth’s red sunsets has not occurred. Ehlers et al.
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28th October 2013 Sol 436
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 28, 2013 Today is a soliday on Mars and no science activities. We are parked close to our next Waypoint called Cooperstown.
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11th November 2014 Sol 806
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 11, 2014 Mars Science Laboratory has changed our view of Mars: following the 2 Viking landers of 1976 and the Pathfinder Lander in 1997 we had an idea that Mars was predominantly made of basaltic igneous rocks.
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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.
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Global Dust Storm on Mars July 9th 2018, Sol 2105
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/07/09/global-dust-storm-on-mars-july-9th-2018-sol-2105/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 9, 2018 We are experiencing the most intense global dust storm on Mars since 2001.
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Saturday 27th October Sol 80
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 27, 2012 The Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory contains the ‘Scarecrow’ Curiosity rover, used to test going over obstacles and up slopes.
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Sunday Nov 25th Sol 108
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 25, 2012 It is now almost exactly a year since launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on the 26th Nov. 2011.
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Saturday 25th August Sol 19
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 26, 2012 In the next few days we are expecting the first measurements by the SAM mass spectrometer instrument (inlet on the top surface of Curiosity) of the Mars atmosphere.
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25th September 2013 Sol 404
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 25, 2013 We have now left Waypoint Point 1 and started out for Waypoint 2, at about 1 km distance.