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

.If you review this blogging site incredibly usually, you understand that almost each time the wanderer picks up science, MAHLI and APXS focus on appealing (and also accessible!) stones as aim ats. The rover science crew is, after all, developed with a great deal of rock hounds. However geography is certainly not all stones, continuously-- sand is previous rock that if laid to rest as well as forced long enough are going to become stone again. Today was opportunity for sand to radiate, as the office was actually reduced through canals of sand of different colours and also illuminations, and it had been nearly 500 sols due to the fact that we acquired our last devoted sand measurement along with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" target was just one of the brighter sand patches while "Renal Lake" was among the darker sand spots. APXS makes use of an unique positioning method over sand aim ats so the equipment obtains close, yet not also close, to the loose material which can foul up the equipment. Not-rock was actually additionally the territory of our environmental observations. Navcam is actually set up for imaging looking for clouds and dirt devils, and also changes in the sand and dirt on top of the rover deck. Both Navcam and Mastcam will definitely create findings to measure the volume of dirt in the atmosphere. Rapid eye movements will keep an eye on our weather condition along with frequent dimensions, RAD will definitely track our radiation environment, and DAN will definitely look through stone for signs of water beneath our drive road.

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