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Tuesday 2nd October Sol 56
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2012 We are getting excellent close up images with MAHLI of the rocks underneath us at the rim of Glenelg. Soon we will pause to scoop a fine-grained sample for our XRD experiment.
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17th February 2014 Sol 545
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 17, 2014 As we approach a full martian year (669 sols) we have travelled about 5 km. There is fine tuning to be done on the route to get us relatively quickly to the clay and iron oxide concentrations in Mt.
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24th April 2016 Sol 1322
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 24, 2016 We have just completed our latest drillhole at Lubango.
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20th May 2013 Sol 280
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 20, 2013 Here is a MAHLI image of our second drill hole at Cumberland. Like the first drill hole it shows the difference between the reddish uppermost surface of Mars and what lies underneath.
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16th August 2016 Sol 1432
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 16, 2016 The Veins of Mars The Veins of Mars Dr Samuel Illingworth of Manchester Metropolitan University has written a poem about the sulphate veins on Mars that we have just published about in Meteoritics and...
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Sunday 23rd September Sol 47
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 23, 2012 Mankind versus Machine #2 The robotic arm is over the calibration rock Jake_ Matijevic.
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8th October 2015 Sol 1128
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 8, 2015 This MAHLI image (taken at nighttime and illuminated by LEDs) shows the precision of the ChemCam LIBS shooting at about 2.5 m distance from the ChemCam on the mast.
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Saturday 18th August Sol 13
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 19, 2012 In order to keep track of time, both on Earth and Mars, a few people on the MSL team wear 2 watches. That is a clear sign that someone at JPL is working on the MSL mission.
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Wednesday 15th August Sol 10
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 16, 2012 As we study images of places never seen before I get the full sense of the excitement of exploration that early explorers on Earth must have felt as they encountered new lands .
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Tuesday August 14th Sol 9
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 14, 2012 Barack Obama talked to the JPL engineering team yesterday and everyone else watched a video link of this.