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  • Tuesday 18th September Sol 42

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 18, 2012 We have paused to take a panorama of the landscape: Mt Sharp, crater walls and local terrain before we descend into GlenElg.  This could be one of the most dramatic landscape photographs of the mission.

  • Friday 25th January 2013 Sol 168

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 25, 2013 One of the features of the MAHLI microimager is that it has a set of LED lights around the lens aperture.

  • Saturday 25th August Sol 19

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 26, 2012 In the next few days we are expecting the first measurements by the SAM mass spectrometer instrument (inlet on the top surface of Curiosity) of the Mars atmosphere.

  • Saturday 27th October Sol 80

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 27, 2012   The Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory contains the ‘Scarecrow’ Curiosity rover, used to test going over obstacles and up slopes.

  • April 19th 2013 Sol 250

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 19, 2013 Even though Curiosity and its robotic arm are parked during Conjunction, the thermal control system continues to operate.

  • 6th April 2014 Sol 622

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 6, 2014 I am visiting Thurso, which is on the far north Scottish coast.  The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, associated with the Dounreay nuclear facility, invited me to give a talk about Curiosity.

  • Astrophotography Competition Time – AstRoSoc Calendar

    AstroSoc Competition

  • Businessman, bishop and life peer to receive Honorary Degrees

    Three recipients of honorary degrees, to be awarded at this month’s Graduation Ceremonies, have been announced. Guli Francis-Dehqani, the first suffragan Bishop of Loughborough, will be made an Honorary Doctor of Laws at the morning ceremony on Thursday 16 January.

  • 22nd March 2018 Sol 2000

    MSL

  • Geologist to monitor effects of controlled demolition near former city council HQ

    University geologist Dr David Hawthorn will be setting up equipment near the former city council HQ to record the effects of the controlled demolition of the site planned for this weekend. Dr David Hawthorn is a seismologist in our Department of Geology.

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