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Sunday 30th September Sol53
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/29/sunday-30th-september-sol53/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 29, 2012 We are closer to the descent into the lower area of Glenelg. The rock type around Curiosity has changed from the fluvial gravels and we are using the robotic arm to study it.
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Wednesday 8th August Sol2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/08/wednesday-8th-august-sol2/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 8, 2012 The first MastCam images are coming back. Thats another milestone as the 2 m high mast is now in position. Now is the time that we start suggesting experiments.
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Friday 7th September Sol 32
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/07/friday-7th-september-sol-32/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 7, 2012 We are testing out the robotic arm for the next few sols.
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Santa’s sleigh flies with the power of the Apollo mission rocket
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/santa-sleigh-engine
Santa’s sleigh would require equivalent thrust to that produced by the Saturn V rocket or 150 Boeing 747-400 engines, University of Leicester students have found.
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24th June 2014 Sol 669
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/06/24/24th-june-2014-sol-669/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 24, 2014 It is sol 669 and this equals 1 martian year since our landing in August 2012. At the moment we are doing a lot of driving – frequently over 100 m per day in this phase of the mission.
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Sol 1 Monday 7th August
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/07/sol-1-monday-7th-august/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 7, 2012 Mars Reconaissance Orbiter Image of Curiosity Descent. Good news from ChemCam PI Roger Wiens ‘All Systems are Go’.
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Turned off at Execution Dock: Thames Scenery in the City of the Gallows. By Richard Ward
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/04/25/turned-off-at-execution-dock-thames-scenery-in-the-city-of-the-gallows-by-richard-ward/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on April 25, 2016 Eighteenth-century London has, with good reason, been called “the city of the gallows”.
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World’s first picture of the molecular machinery that makes cilia beat
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/cilia
A picture of the structures that power human cilia – the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways, has been produced by scientists for the first time.
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12th Nov 2012 Sol 96
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/12/12th-nov-2012-sol-96/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 12, 2012 The science team rotates roles and I am Mineralogy Science Theme Lead for the next few sols.
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Sunday 4th Nov 2012 Sol 88
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/04/sunday-4th-nov-2012-sol-88/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 4, 2012 Research into trace gases in the Mars atmosphere, for instance ground based studies of the martian atmosphere, have suggested that tens of parts per billion of the molecules might be methane.