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15th May 2014 Sol 630
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/05/15/15th-may-2014-sol-630/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 15, 2014 As you can see from this NavCam image we are now driving away from Mt Remarkable.
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11th May 2016 Sol 1337
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/05/11/11th-may-2016-sol-1337/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 11, 2016 Sol 1337 means that we have just reached our second martian year since landing in 2012, Here is a birthday cake to the mission from the ChemCam team in Toulouse.
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3rd May 2013 Sol 263
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/05/03/3rd-may-2013-sol-263/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 3, 2013 Our first image has come back after conjunction. Here is the Chemcam remote microimager (RMI) of our titanium calibration target.
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1st May 2014 Sol 618
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/05/01/1st-may-2014-sol-618/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 1, 2014 Here is a MastCam image of drilling in progress. This is the first ‘minidrill’ hole at Windjana. You can see that Red Mars is only a very thin layer on the planet.
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What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles
But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.
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Exosens invests £1m to propel space research and innovation for the METEOR programme in partnership with Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/exosens
Exosens has worked with University of Leicester academics for more than 25 years, on projects such as the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) instrument the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission
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New asteroid catalogue allows glimpse into Solar System’s rock history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/asteroid-catalogue-solar-system-rock-history-1-770
Researchers at University of Leicester and the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur use Gaia satellite data to collect spectra from our asteroid belt
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Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics this week
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-this-week
Despite promises of ‘ultrafast’ broadband services in the latest Budget announcement, Dr Bianca Reisdorf from the Department of Media and Communications and Anne-Marie Oostveen from the University of Oxford reflect on how we have yet to see the results of previous promises of...
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8th May 2015 Sol 979
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/05/08/8th-may-2015-sol-979/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 8, 2015 This Mastcam panorama shows our current location at Mt. Shields and our route on to Mt Sharp via Logan’s Pass. We are planning contact science on the outcrops on the lower part of Mt. Shields.
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26th May 2016 Sol 1352
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/05/26/26th-may-2016-sol-1352/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 26, 2016 We are studying an area called Fracture Town. The aim is to follow up identification of opal to check the extent to which silica has been remobilised by fluids in the sediments.