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Santa’s sleigh flies with the power of the Apollo mission rocket
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/santa-sleigh-engine
Santa’s sleigh would require equivalent thrust to that produced by the Saturn V rocket or 150 Boeing 747-400 engines, University of Leicester students have found.
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Tuesday 15th January 2013 Sol 159
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/15/tuesday-15th-january-2013-sol-159/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 15, 2013 We are finding more veins and white nodules across the drill target area (called John Klein) and in our surrounding area.
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18th January 2015 Sol 872
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/01/18/18th-january-2015-sol-872/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 18, 2015 Unlike Curiosity the Beagle2 lander never sent a signal back from Mars. However, as a result of some new HiRISE images we now know where it is and what happened.
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19th October 2014 Sol 783
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/10/19/19th-october-2014-sol-783/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 19, 2014 Today marks the closest approach of Comet Siding Spring to Mars. Curiosity will be pointing MastCam and ChemCam towards it, and have been practising targeting at stars like Spica.
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Wednesday 5th September Sol 29
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/05/wednesday-5th-september-sol-29/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 5, 2012 We have been making initial analyses of the Mars atmosphere using SAM (Surface Analysis at Mars) which includes a mass spectrometer with gas chromatography.
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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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Friday 19th October Sol 72
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/19/friday-19th-october-sol-72/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 19, 2012 One of the main aims of the scoops has been to get soils and dust of suitable fine grained size for the X-ray diffraction experiment – CHEMIN. We are waiting with excitement for the first results.
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EU Screen
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/07/eu-screen/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2011 http://www.euscreen.eu/beta/index.html This beta test site aims to offer a single point of access to over 30,000 items of programme content and complementary contextual information.
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UK Web Content to be archived
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/18/uk-web-content-to-be-archived/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 18, 2013 The Legal Deposit Libraries of the UK and Ireland are to archive UK web content for the benefit of future researchers. More information from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.
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Women like that: lesbian and gay history
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/women-like-that-lesbian-and-gay-history/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Jane Traies, who is based at the University of Surrey, is pioneering research on the lives of older lesbians in the UK.