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Sols 4325-4326: (Almost) Dipping Our Feet in the Sand

.If you review this weblog very frequently, you recognize that almost every single time the vagabond picks up scientific research, MAHLI and APXS concentrate on exciting (and obtainable!) stones as targets. The rover scientific research group is actually, nevertheless, constructed along with a bunch of geologists. However geography is certainly not all stones, constantly-- sand is former rock that if buried and constrained enough time are going to become stone once more. Today was time for sand to radiate, as the workspace was actually reduced by troughs of sand of various shades as well as illuminations, and also it had been almost 500 sols due to the fact that our company got our final committed sand size with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" target was one of the more beautiful sand patches while "Renal Pond" was among the darker sand patches. APXS makes use of a special positioning mode over sand targets so the musical instrument acquires close, however certainly not as well close, to the loose material which could muck up the musical instrument. Not-rock was also the territory of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is actually arranged for imaging choosing clouds and dust evil ones, and also improvements in the sand as well as dirt in addition to the wanderer deck. Both Navcam and Mastcam are going to create opinions to determine the volume of dirt in the atmosphere. Rapid eye movements will take note of our weather with routine measurements, radical will definitely track our radiation atmosphere, and also DAN will check out stone for indicators of water underneath our disk road.

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