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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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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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New project to save sole surviving population of rare wildflower
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-project-to-save-sole-surviving-population-of-rare-wildflower
A new conservation project at the Botanic Garden hopes to save a rare wildflower that is almost extinct throughout Leicestershire and Rutland - and has a declining population nationwide.
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Laura Bee
https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/laura-bee
Laura always goes above and beyond to improve the lives of students, staff, and the wider local community.
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New fact-check sites for French newspapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/new-fact-check-sites-for-french-newspapers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 With recent concerns about Fake news, seventeen local and national newsrooms in France, including AFP, Buzzfeed News, Les Echos, Le Monde, Libération and La Voix Du Nord have...
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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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Alumnus and entrepreneur encourages students to "be bold and don't settle"
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/alumnus-and-entrrpreneur-encourages-students-to-be-bold-and-don2019t-settle
The founder of the satellite technology company Planet, whose mission is to image the whole Earth every day, has been interviewed about his experience at University and how it led to the creation of his game-changing organisation.
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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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24th May 2013 Sol 284
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/05/24/24th-may-2013-sol-284/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 24, 2013 One of the things we tend to forget about, because it is working quietly in the background, is the communications network.
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Women’s pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/womens-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 A report published by the University and College Union on the discrepancy between men’s and women’s pay in the UK HE sector http://www.ucu.org.