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• Tuesday 2nd October Sol 56

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/02/tuesday-2nd-october-sol-56/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2012 We are getting excellent close up images with MAHLI of the rocks underneath us at the rim of Glenelg.  Soon we will pause to scoop a fine-grained sample for our XRD experiment.

• Thursday 20th December Sol 133

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/12/20/thursday-20th-december-sol-133/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 20, 2012 Curiosity and its team will soon take a break over the Christmas holidays .  However in the meantime we are using the opportunity to examine different parts of Yellowknife and its rocks.

• March 30th 2013 Sol 231

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/03/30/march-30th-2013-sol-231/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 30, 2013 We are now back to full operations after the software problems, and getting in observations prior to the planetary conjunction.

• July 5th 2013 Sol 324

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/05/july-5th-2013-sol-324/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 5, 2013   I am visiting the French ChemCam HQ in the CNRS lab based in Toulouse.  Some of the development of ChemCam was done by the group here.

• 5th August 2013 Sol 355

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/05/5th-august-2013-sol-355/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2013 We are just about at the one Earth year anniversary of our landing.  MSL Landing was on the 5th August Pacific time and about 6 am, 6th August British Summertime.

• 17th February 2014 Sol 545

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/02/17/17th-february-2014-sol-545/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 17, 2014 As we approach a full martian year (669 sols) we have travelled about 5 km.  There is fine tuning to be done on the route to get us relatively quickly to the clay and iron oxide concentrations in Mt.

• 12th June 2013 Sol 302

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/06/12/12th-june-2013-sol-302/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 12, 2013 We are carefully positioning ourselves for Point Lake.

• 14th October 2013 Sol 424

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/14/october-14th-2013-sol-424/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 14, 2013 The noon to pre-dawn temperature variation at Gale Crater can be up to 90 degrees centigrade.   This MastCam image shows the effects of this extreme temperature variation.

• 21st October 2013 Sol 429

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/21/21st-october-2013-sol-429/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 21, 2013 We are now just a few more sols from the second waypoint.

• 30th October 2013 Sol 438

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/10/30/30th-october-2013-sol-438/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 30, 2013 We have now reached Waypoint 2 – Cooperstown, 4 km from our starting point at Bradbury Landing.