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22nd August 2013 Sol 371
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/22/22nd-august-2013-sol-371/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 22, 2013 Mars has two moons Phobos – about 22km diameter, and Deimos which is about half that. MastCam has recently imaged an occultation where Phobos passed in front of the more distant Deimos.
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10th December 2014 Sol 833
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/12/10/10th-december-2014-sol-833/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 10, 2014 At Pahrump we are considering potential drill sites. The heavy signs of veining and water will make for an interesting mineralogical and fluid composition study.
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6th April 2014 Sol 622
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/05/06/6th-april-2014-sol-623/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 6, 2014 I am visiting Thurso, which is on the far north Scottish coast. The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, associated with the Dounreay nuclear facility, invited me to give a talk about Curiosity.
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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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Cataloguing the AIM archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/08/hanna-noor-cataloguing-the-aim-archive/
Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on January 8, 2020 Guest post from Hana Noor, a former MA Museum Studies student at the University of Leicester, 2019 Some of the AIM papers in the archive store, before processing As part of my...
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Sunday 30th December Sol 143
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/30/sunday-30th-december-sol-143/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 30, 2012 Gale Crater is named after Walter Frederick Gale, an Australian astronomer in the early 20 th century (1865-1945).
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FIA Formula 1 virtual racing is coming to the University of Leicester campus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/24-virtual-formula-1
Two new high performance car aerodynamic designs will be competing against each other at the University of Leicester on Tuesday 28 May 2019.
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Sunday 26th August Sol 20
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 26, 2012 Since the noble gas analyses by Viking in 1976 we have had the information to recognise meteorites from Mars (now about 60). My favourite martian meteorites are the nakhlites.
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Friday 24th August Sol 18
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 24, 2012 Bradbury landing is defined as the square outlined by the wheel imprints you can see in my last blog entry.
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18th July 2013 Sol 337
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/18/18th-july-2013-sol-337/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 18, 2013 We are getting into the new routine of driving e.g. 30 or 40 m per day together with science observations, in particular from the mast instruments.