John Bridges: Mars Science Laboratory

Welcome to my Mars Science Laboratory Blog.  My name is Dr John Bridges and I am a planetary scientist at the University of Leicester.  I am also part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission team.  During the course of MSL I will be keeping a record of what it is like to work on the […]

John Bridges: Mars Science Laboratory Blog

  From April 2017  the URL for this blog has moved to: https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/   John Bridges

29th November 2016 Sol 1534

We have started our 19th drill or scoop.  Curiosity now aims to drill at regular elevation intervals (25 m) as we progress up through the Murray formation.  This will give us a representative set of mineral and compositional analyses so that we can track any environmental changes. In this HazCam image we are using the […]

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