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Where to dig
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/where-to-dig
We identified three potential areas of excavation – the Leicester City Council Social Services car park, the former Alderman Newton’s School playground and a private car park to the west of New Street.
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Tuesday 18th September Sol 42
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/18/tuesday-18th-september-sol-42/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 18, 2012 We have paused to take a panorama of the landscape: Mt Sharp, crater walls and local terrain before we descend into GlenElg. This could be one of the most dramatic landscape photographs of the mission.
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World’s first picture of the molecular machinery that makes cilia beat
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/cilia
A picture of the structures that power human cilia – the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways, has been produced by scientists for the first time.
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4th March 2014 Sol 560
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/03/04/4th-march-2014-sol-560/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 4, 2014 This striking image is a mosaic of navigation camera images, at Junda outcrop with Mt. Sharp in the background. Junda is a place in W.
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10th March 2014 Sol 565
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/03/10/10th-march-2014-sol-565/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 10, 2014 We are having a set of drive-only sols, to reach our next Waypont Kimberley in the next few days. At Kimberley we may do our third drill hole.
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18th June 2013 Sol 308
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/06/18/18th-june-2013-sol-308/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 18, 2013 I am taking my turn at being the GeoMin group theme lead this sol. I am also the ChemCam science theme group member.
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18th June 2014 Sol 664
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/06/18/18th-june-2014-sol-644/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 18, 2014 Today I am GeoSTL lead. As we approach our first martian year we are concentrating on driving. We recently managed 120 m in one sol.
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Tuesday 4th September Sol 28
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/04/monday-4th-september-sol-28/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 4, 2012 The High Resolution Stereo Imager Experiment (HiRise) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter MRO has returned new images of the Bradbury landing site and Curiosity itself.
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Sunday 16th September Sol 40
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/16/sunday-16th-september-sol-40/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 16, 2012 As we move forward we are making remarkable new discoveries. There is a palpable air of excitement in the Science Discussions as the MastCam images appear.
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Sunday 7th October Sol 61
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/08/sunday-7th-october-sol-61-1/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 8, 2012 One of the major challenges in preparing a spacecraft for Mars is ensuring that the chemical analyses made by the instruments, in particular for the SAM mass spectrometer are not contaminated by material...