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24th June 2016 Sol 1380
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 24, 2016 Here is the latest HiRISE image of Curiosity. It shows the rover on the Naukluft Plateau where we have been for the last few months.
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Sol 0 Monday 6th August
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 6, 2012 1.30 am PDT More images from the latest data relay. We get to work – linking it to what we saw from the orbital images and describing what we see.
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Tuesday 21st August Sol 16
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 22, 2012 Today was a day to gather up and consider the data being send back from Curiosity – now we have ChemCam laser data and its images, panoramic images from MastCam, the navigation cameras for plotting our path...
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20th September 2016 Sol 1466
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 20, 2016 We have got down a new self portrait of Curiosity from MAHLI. This shows the Murray Butte number 12 – where we have just been drilling – in the ChemCam mirror.
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14th August 2013 Sol 363
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 14, 2013 We have put a sample from the Cumberland drill hole into SAM for more isotopic measurements. The sample had been cached within the robotic arm’s turret.
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8th January 2014 Sol 506
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 8, 2014 Its Stargazing Live at University of Leicester today.
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February 27th 2013 Sol 200
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 27, 2013 We now have material within Curiosity for the SAM mass spectrometer and the CheMin X-ray Diffraction.
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24th September 2014 Sol 758
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 24, 2014 We are drilling at Pahrump (named after an old Shoshone, native American settlement in what is now Nevada).
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31st January 2015 Sol 885
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 31, 2015 The second attempt at drilling Mojave has been succesfull by both the minidrill and main drill hole (diameter 1.5 cm, depth ~6 cm). Now we are analysing the tailings with ChemCam and APXS.
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9th February 2015 Sol 893
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 9, 2015 Now that our first Pahrump drill is completed one of the things we do is check the CheMIn inlet (which is in the top right of the NavCam image) to check for any debris, blockages etc.