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  • 25th March 2015 Sol 936

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 25, 2015 This MAHLI image (field of view about 20 cm) shows how water has travelled through the Garden City mudstone rock.  It has left trails in veins – probably of gypsum or a similar mineral.

  • 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.

  • Does it matter if your PhD Certificate includes the topic of your research?

    Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on September 5, 2017 Sitting in a meeting recently I learned that University of Leicester PhD certificates do not include a title or descriptor of the research topic. Just PhD Leicester.

  • Ben Jervis

    The academic profile of Professor Ben Jervis, Professor of Medieval Archaeology at University of Leicester

  • Celebrating Diwali 2022

    The School of Physics and Astronomy were pleased to bring back the complimentary food tasting of traditional Diwali snacks and sweets as part of the Diwali celebrations.

  • 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.

  • Roger Irwin

    DPhil student in English - Linacre College, Oxford University

  • March 7th 2013 Sol 208

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 7, 2013 A natural hazard for all spacecraft, including MSL, is currently at Mars.  On March 5th there was a large solar flare or ‘Coronal Mass Ejection’.

  • Monday 20th August Sol 15

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 21, 2012 The robotic arm has been moved for the first time.  This is the 70 kg instrument which carries the X-ray spectrometer and close up imager MAHLI.

  • Sunday 9th September Sol 34

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 10, 2012 Just like in a terrestrial laboratory we have to analyse standards of known composition.

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