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April 19th 2013 Sol 250
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/04/19/april-19th-2013-sol-250/
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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6th April 2014 Sol 622
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/05/06/6th-april-2014-sol-623/
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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2nd July 2014 Sol 678
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/07/02/2nd-july-2014-sol-678/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 2, 2014 Here is a new classic image from Mars: a selfie from Kimberley. You can see the dark drill hole and the practice drill hole beside it.
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Zombie apocalypse would potentially wipe out humanity in just 100 days students calculate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/zombie-apocalypse-would-wipe-out-humanity-in-just-100-days-students-calculate
A real-life zombie outbreak would leave the world’s population in shambles, with less than 300 survivors remaining a mere one hundred days into the apocalypse, according to students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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MRC Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
https://le.ac.uk/medieval/study/undergraduate/dissertation-prize
See records of the annual Medieval Research Centre prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in medieval studies. The prize was set up in 2007 in memory of A G and A L Postles.
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Core values: the geoscientists searching for climate answers beneath the ocean floor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/hawaii-coral-geoscience
Two geoscientists from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment are on a voyage to unearth the hidden history within Hawai’ian fossil coral reefs.
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Leicester space scientists celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/jwst-launch
Amongst other things, it will be able to see the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, along with studying planet formation around distant stars.
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First delivery to our University of high-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/first-delivery-to-our-university-of-high-tech-glass-plates-to-be-used-to-discover-the-birth-of-new-black-holes
Our University is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite ‘SVOM’ which is designed to discover and study Gamma-Ray Bursts from newly formed black holes.
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Monday 14th January 2013 Sol 157
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/15/monday-14th-january-2013-sol-157/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 15, 2013 AS we are thinking about a drill target, the rock around us has a clastic texture, that is it is made of rounded grains that have been transported by water or wind.
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£8.8 million to speed up gene discoveries for lung conditions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/wellcome-funding-lung-health
New project aims to speed up process of finding treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and pulmonary fibrosis.