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

.If you read this blog post incredibly usually, you recognize that virtually every time the wanderer stops for scientific research, MAHLI and APXS pay attention to intriguing (as well as available!) rocks as intendeds. The rover science group is actually, it goes without saying, constructed along with a ton of rock hounds. But geology is not all stones, regularly-- sand is actually previous rock that if buried and constrained long enough will definitely come to be rock again. Today was actually time for sand to radiate, as the work space was reduced by canals of sand of different shades and brightnesses, and it had actually been actually nearly 500 sols considering that our company obtained our final committed sand measurement along with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" intended was just one of the more beautiful sand spots while "Kidney Lake" was just one of the darker sand spots. APXS utilizes an unique positioning method over sand intendeds so the equipment obtains close, but not also close, to the loose material which could possibly foul up the instrument. Not-rock was actually additionally the territory of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is actually booked for image resolution choosing clouds and also dust evil ones, and adjustments in the sand and dust atop the rover deck. Both Navcam and Mastcam are going to help make opinions to gauge the quantity of dirt in the ambience. REMS will take note of our weather with routine dimensions, RAD is going to track our radiation environment, and also DAN will certainly check out rock for signs of water underneath our drive path.

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