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Sols 4325-4326: (Not Quite) Plunging Our Toes in the Sand

.If you read this blog site extremely typically, you know that virtually whenever the rover picks up science, MAHLI and also APXS focus on exciting (and also available!) stones as targets. The wanderer scientific research team is actually, besides, built along with a considerable amount of geologists. But geography is actually certainly not all rocks, at all times-- sand is actually former rock that if buried as well as forced enough time will become stone once more. Today was time for sand to sparkle, as the workspace was actually cut by troughs of sand of various colors as well as brightnesses, and also it had actually been almost 500 sols considering that our company acquired our last committed sand measurement with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" aim at was just one of the more vibrant sand patches while "Kidney Pond" was one of the darker sand patches. APXS makes use of an exclusive positioning mode over sand targets so the instrument obtains close, but not too close, to the loose product which could foul up the equipment. Not-rock was actually additionally the province of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is scheduled for imaging looking for clouds as well as dirt adversaries, and also adjustments in the sand and dirt in addition to the wanderer deck. Both Navcam and also Mastcam will create observations to measure the quantity of dirt in the setting. REMS will definitely take note of our climate along with frequent sizes, radical is going to observe our radiation atmosphere, as well as DAN is going to browse stone for signs of water below our disk path.

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