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Monday 13th August Sol 7
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/13/monday-13th-august-sol-7-1/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 13, 2012 In a recent paper led by my collaborator Dr Susanne Schwenzer and with a number of MSL scientists as co authors we outlined a scenario whereby heating related to the impact 4 billion years ago caused...
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Saturday 22nd September Sol 46
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/22/saturday-22nd-september-sol-46/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 22, 2012 Mankind versus Machine #1 We have taken a break to watch the JPL flypast of the Shuttle Endeavour as it is brought on the back of a Boeing 747 to Los Angeles.
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15th March 2015 Sol 926
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/03/15/15th-march-2015-sol-926/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 15, 2015 We have started moving off from Pahrump, towards our next main Waypoint at Artist’s Drive. This remarkable site of large sulfate veins is in front of us at Garden City.
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31st August 2015 Sol 1091
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/08/31/31st-august-2015-sol-1091/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 31, 2015 I am Geo Science Theme Lead today (Geo STL). Our top priority is to retake the APXS compostional analyses on the Buckskin drill tailings, as we missed first time around.
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19th January 2014 Sol 517
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/01/19/19th-january-2014-sol-517/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 19, 2014 On Earth rocks that are as ancient as those we are studying on Mars have been destroyed by the tectonic recycling process or heavily metamorphosed.
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Friday 24th August Sol 18
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/24/friday-24th-august-sol-18/
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.
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The Boy Who Lived Students put the science of Harry Potters universe to the test
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/students-put-the-science-of-harry-potter2019s-universe-to-the-test
In the world of Harry Potter the young wizard undergoes two magical biological transformations: eating Gillyweed to grow gills in order to breathe underwater and drinking Skele-Gro to repair broken bones.
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Local students begin to take their LEAP into University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/local-students-begin-to-take-their-leap-into-university
On Wednesday 21 January, the University welcomed 40 local school and college students onto campus to begin to take their LEAP into University at the launch of our new Leicester Enhanced Access Programme (LEAP).
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Leicester Heroes event aims to recruit hundreds of new potential stem cell donors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-heroes-event-aims-to-recruit-hundreds-of-new-potential-stem-cell-donors
Our University has once again teamed up with The Rik Basra Leukaemia Campaign to host an event on Monday 30 October which aims to recruit hundreds of new potential donors to the Anthony Nolan stem cell register.