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3rd April 2015 Sol 945
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 3, 2015 The heavy noble gases argon, krypton and xenon are known for their non-reactive nature and on Earth used for many applications where a gas is needed to protect a surface from the reactive species in...
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25th September 2013 Sol 404
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 25, 2013 We have now left Waypoint Point 1 and started out for Waypoint 2, at about 1 km distance.
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Saturday 27th October Sol 80
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 27, 2012 The Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory contains the ‘Scarecrow’ Curiosity rover, used to test going over obstacles and up slopes.
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10th December 2014 Sol 833
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 10, 2014 At Pahrump we are considering potential drill sites. The heavy signs of veining and water will make for an interesting mineralogical and fluid composition study.
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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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Thursday 9th August Sol 3
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 8, 2012 We wait for each pass by Odyssey or Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to return more images. Our navigation cameras (NavCam) are producing the first of our panoramic mosaics.
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April 19th 2013 Sol 250
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 19, 2013 Even though Curiosity and its robotic arm are parked during Conjunction, the thermal control system continues to operate.
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Wednesday 9th Jan. 2013 Sol 153
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 14, 2013 Another first for Curiosity’s instruments. We have deployed the brush (which is a rotating implement on the robotic arm) for the first time.
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Friday 25th January 2013 Sol 168
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Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 25, 2013 One of the features of the MAHLI microimager is that it has a set of LED lights around the lens aperture.
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24th July 2017 Sol 1765 Solar Conjunction
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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.