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29th August 2013 Sol 378
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 29, 2013 We are now about 300 m from Waypoint1. That is one of the stopping off points on the way to the clay-rich horizon of Mt. Sharp.
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31st December 2014 Sol 854
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 31, 2014 We are continuing the Pahrump localities looped drive. MSL is not working full time over the holidays but we had a ‘3-sol’ plan on the 29th December. I was the Geo Science Theme Lead for the day.
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25th April 2014 Sol 611
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 25, 2014 Here is the chosen drill site – Windjana (named after a famous set of rocks in W. Australia which show ancient paintings).
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30th July 2015 Sol 1059
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 30, 2015 We have started drilling at Belkin, first a minidrill hole before the main drill hole. Belkin has been chosen because this sedimentary horizon has some very high silica enrichments.
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Sol 1 Monday 7th August
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 7, 2012 Mars Reconaissance Orbiter Image of Curiosity Descent. Good news from ChemCam PI Roger Wiens ‘All Systems are Go’.
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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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Breakthrough in fuel cell recycling turns ‘forever chemicals’ into renewable resources
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/breakthrough-fuel-cell-recycling-forever-chemicals-renewable
University of Leicester scientists develop technique using soundwaves to separate materials in fuel cells in seconds
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Sunday 7th October Sol 61
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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...
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4th June 210 Sol 651
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 4, 2014 A new role for me as I join the HiRISE camera team for an operations/image selection role for the first time.
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2nd October 2013 Sol 411
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2013 Mars Science Laboratory is having a team meeting at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California.