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30th October 2013 Sol 438
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 30, 2013 We have now reached Waypoint 2 – Cooperstown, 4 km from our starting point at Bradbury Landing.
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5th December 2013 Sol 474
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 5, 2013 We have paused to do some contact science, using the robotic arm to use APXS on the local rocks.
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19th January 2014 Sol 517
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 19, 2014 On Earth rocks that are as ancient as those we are studying on Mars have been destroyed by the tectonic recycling process or heavily metamorphosed.
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10th March 2014 Sol 565
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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 March 2014 Sol 574
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 18, 2014 Quite a lot of the science team is at the 45th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference in Houston.
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6th April 2014 Sol 622
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 6, 2014 I am visiting Thurso, which is on the far north Scottish coast. The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, associated with the Dounreay nuclear facility, invited me to give a talk about Curiosity.
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18th June 2014 Sol 664
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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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1st August 2015 Sol 1060
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 1, 2015 Successful drilling at Buckskin! Like the other drill holes this is showing how thin red Mars is.
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31st August 2015 Sol 1091
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 31, 2015 I am Geo Science Theme Lead today (Geo STL). Our top priority is to retake the APXS compostional analyses on the Buckskin drill tailings, as we missed first time around.
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11th November 2014 Sol 806
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 11, 2014 Mars Science Laboratory has changed our view of Mars: following the 2 Viking landers of 1976 and the Pathfinder Lander in 1997 we had an idea that Mars was predominantly made of basaltic igneous rocks.