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Sunday 9th September Sol 34
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/10/sunday-9th-september-sol-34/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 10, 2012 Just like in a terrestrial laboratory we have to analyse standards of known composition.
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Tuesday 15th January 2013 Sol 159
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/15/tuesday-15th-january-2013-sol-159/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 15, 2013 We are finding more veins and white nodules across the drill target area (called John Klein) and in our surrounding area.
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5th June 2013 Sol 296
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/06/05/5th-june-2013-sol-296/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 5, 2013 The latest puzzle for us is Point Lake.
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Solar System samples touch down in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/winchcombe-hayabusa2
Samples from other worlds have touched down in Leicester, to be analysed by space scientists studying the building blocks of our Solar System.
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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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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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Friday 17th August Sol 12
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/18/friday-17th-august-sol-12/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 18, 2012 We have chosen our first long term direction for Curiosity – and it is going about 0.5 km towards the NE, to an important junction between 3 different rock types. The site has been named Glenelg.
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24th July 2017 Sol 1765 Solar Conjunction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/07/24/24th-july-2017-sol-1765-solar-conjunction/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 24, 2017 No new photos from Mars Science laboratory. Why? We have reached Solar Conjunction – this is the time in the planets’ orbits when Mars is obscured from the Earth by the Sun.
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Sol 2039 1st May 2018 Unique Samples from the Deep Martian Crust
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/05/01/sol-2039-1st-may-2018-unique-samples-from-the-deep-martian-crust/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 1, 2018 We have recently come across a unique set of samples from the deeper crust of Mars, kilometres below what was the Gale Lake 4 billion years ago.
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Thursday 6th December Sol 119
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/06/thursday-6th-december-sol-119/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 6, 2012 NASA HQ have announced that the mission lifetime of MSL has been extended indefinitely, beyond the current one martian year (2 terrestrial years).