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Hello readers! It’s me again, here with your weekly news round-up. We’re getting back to normal again now and we have a great deal lined up for you all in the near future! Stay tuned for a wide range of … Continue reading
Well we failed yet again! 2 weeks ago I promised that we’d get back on track with these weekly news updates, but we didn’t manage to find time to write anything last week – apologies once again. We have all … Continue reading
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Hello! First of all, we would like to apologise for not posting these weekly updates for the last few weeks. Things have been a little crazy in the lab with one very sick spectrometer, and we’ve been too busy playing … Continue reading
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Welcome to this week’s News Round-up! We hope you’ve had a week that’s been as eventful as ours has. I for one am a step closer to having a working spectrometer- I’ll be writing more about that in the coming … Continue reading
Hello readers! With the New Year you may notice a series of changes to the blog – we managed to draw in an outstanding 22,000 number of hits last year (Coincidentally, also the number of man-made objects being tracked by … Continue reading
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Curiosity has been sitting a series of exams ahead of its long journey to Mt. Sharp. Initial testing of the MAHLI and APXS instruments has been successfully completed, whilst engineers have also continued to fine-tune the movement of the robotic arm. Following this brief stop … Continue reading
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NASAs Curiosity rover has been having a slight breather having driven over 100 m from the Bradbury landing site. This pause has provided engineers with an important opportunity to fully extend and test the rovers 2m long robotic arm. The … Continue reading
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The past week has seen NASAs Curiosity rover return more amazing images of the Gale crater, fire up its DAN and SAM instruments, and take its first steps towards Mt. Sharp. The new images, captured using the 100mm telephoto lens … Continue reading
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NASAs Curiosity rover has made its first test drive on Mars. On sol 16 the rover moved forward 4.5m, turned 120°, and finally reversed 2.5m, leaving behind a series of visible tracks at the Bradbury (recently named after the writer Ray … Continue reading
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NASAs Curiosity rover has successfully analyzed its first Martian rock using the ChemCam! Although only a test, the chemical composition of a nearby rock, named “Coronation”, was determined by firing a laser at its surface and observing the colours of … Continue reading
