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12th September 2017 Sol 1814 – Curiosity’s View Across Gale Crater
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/09/12/12th-september-2017-sol-1814-curiositys-view-across-gale-crater/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 12, 2017 View from Vera Rubin Ridge The Curiosity Rover has reached an elevation of 300 metres above our landing site.
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Scientists invited to take advantage of leading high energy research centres
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/scientists-invited-to-take-advantage-of-leading-high-energy-research-centres
Our University is facilitating a Europe-wide programme that makes available some of the leading facilities in high energy astrophysics to scientists from around the world.
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1st February 2018 Sol 1952 Vera Rubin Ridge and Scotland on Mars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/02/01/1st-february-2018-sol-1952-vera-rubin-ridge-and-scotland-on-mars/
Mars Science Laboratory
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Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/anthropocene-berlin
Leicester researchers searching for a ‘golden spike’ to formally define humanity’s current geological period – and acknowledge human impact on our planet – have announced a major step in their analysis at an international conference today (Wednesday).
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5th August 2017 Sol 1777 – 5 years on Mars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/08/05/5th-august-2017-sol-1777-5-years-on-mars/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2017 The 5th August marks 5 Earth years since the successful landing of Mars Science Laboratory. During the landing I was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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Richard Float
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/richard-float
We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Richard Float, who worked in the Estates Division for more than thirty years, as Assistant Bursar and then Bursar. Richard passed away on 7 October 2024, aged 91.
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Tim Peake announced as special guest at Space Park Leicester official opening
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/space-park-tim-peake
British astronaut Tim Peake will be on hand to declare Space Park Leicester officially open at a special ceremony next spring.
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Sol 2039 1st May 2018 Unique Samples from the Deep Martian Crust
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/05/01/sol-2039-1st-may-2018-unique-samples-from-the-deep-martian-crust/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 1, 2018 We have recently come across a unique set of samples from the deeper crust of Mars, kilometres below what was the Gale Lake 4 billion years ago.
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Spying on Curiosity and Detecting Methane above the Clay Unit in Gale Crater Sol 2424
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2019/06/27/spying-on-curiosity-and-detecting-methane-above-the-clay-unit-in-gale-crater-sol-2424/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 27, 2019 Around this locality in the Clay Unit of Gale Crater we have been doing more methane measurements with the SAM instrument. This highlights the enigmatic nature of Mars’ atmospheric methane.