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  • Government funding for National Space Park development announced

    The University-led National Space Park has been allocated £12.87 million in funding as part of the Government's Midlands Engine Strategy. The Leicester & Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP) has been allocated £25.

  • 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).

  • Open Secrets.org

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2011 http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics.  Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections .

  • World Wide Web Index

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.webfoundation.

  • 29th October 2015 Sol 1148

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 29, 2015 We have completed another drill so that we now have the Big Sky and Greenhorn drill holes. As the team becomes more experienced we are getting quicker at producing drillholes and so we can get more analyses.

  • 28th October 2013 Sol 436

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 28, 2013 Today is a soliday on Mars and no science activities.  We are parked close to our next Waypoint called Cooperstown.

  • March 20th 2013 Sol 221

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 20, 2013 On April 18 th there will be a Mars solar conjunction, when Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun.  This occurs every 26 months ie the length of the Mars year.

  • 14th March 2016 Sol 1282

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 14, 2016 Today the latest addition to the Mars mission flotilla was launched by ESA and Roscosmos.  Trace Gas Orbiter was launched on a Proton rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

  • 11th November 2014 Sol 806

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 11, 2014 Mars Science Laboratory has changed our view of Mars: following the 2 Viking landers of 1976 and the Pathfinder Lander in 1997 we had an idea that Mars was predominantly made of basaltic igneous rocks.

  • 8th September 2013 Sol 388

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 8, 2013 In our last main drive we managed 140 m in one sol! This means we will get to Waypoint 1 more quickly than expected.

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