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• Work begins to transform Freemen’s Common

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-work-begins-freemens-common

  Freemens A group of people on a construction site posing for a photo|The transformation of the Freemen’s Common area, at the University of Leicester, began today with a ground breaking ceremony.

• University urges city to stay strong as Leicester lockdown continues

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/university-urges-city-stay-strong-leicester-lockdown-continues

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah urges Leicester to stay strong and continue to follow Government guidelines, after Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced limited relaxations to the local lockdown restrictions.

• Winners of the Dunlop Polymer Engineering Division Prizes

  https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/study/undergraduate/prizes/dunlop-prizes

  There are two separate Dunlop Prizes of £150 each, awarded for the best graduating MChem student and the best graduating BSc student from the University of Leicester's Department of Chemistry. See a list of previous winners.

• 22nd August 2013 Sol 371

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/22/22nd-august-2013-sol-371/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 22, 2013 Mars has two moons Phobos – about 22km diameter, and Deimos which is about half that.  MastCam has recently imaged an occultation where Phobos passed in front of the more distant Deimos.

• Sunday 3rd September Sol 27

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/03/sunday-3rd-september-sol-27/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 3, 2012 We have had our first day off, done by planning two sols at once.  In the meantime we discuss the results so far and enjoy some of the NavCam images from Sol 26.

• Friday 19th October Sol 72

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/19/friday-19th-october-sol-72/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 19, 2012 One of the main aims of the scoops has been to get soils and dust of suitable fine grained size for the X-ray diffraction experiment – CHEMIN.  We are waiting with excitement for the first results.

• 22nd July 2014 Sol 696

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/07/22/22nd-july-2014-sol-696/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 22, 2014 Recently MastCam and ChemCam imaging revealed 2 iron meteorites along our traverse.  These are the first found by Curiosity, though the 2 MER, Spirit and Opportunity also identified iron meteorites.

• 19th October 2014 Sol 783

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/10/19/19th-october-2014-sol-783/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 19, 2014 Today marks the closest approach of Comet Siding Spring to Mars.  Curiosity will be pointing MastCam and ChemCam towards it, and have been practising targeting  at stars like Spica.

• National Space Centre Lockdown Thematic Weeks

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/05/12/national-space-centre-lockdown-thematic-weeks/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 12 May 2020 During the 2020 lockdown, the National Space Centre continued to engage a national audience with their space-themes videos.

• 18th January 2015 Sol 872

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/01/18/18th-january-2015-sol-872/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 18, 2015 Unlike Curiosity the Beagle2 lander never sent a signal back from Mars.  However, as a result of some new HiRISE images we now know where it is and what happened.