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Sols 4331-4333: Today's Rover ABC-- Aurora, In Reverse Driving, and Chemistry, along with an Edge of Images

.Chemical make up is likewise including in the planning. The vagabond is actually steady on its own tires, which means we can easily acquire the arm out and do an APXS dimension on the target "Midnight Pond," which MAHLI additionally images. The LIBS examinations are actually furthering the APXS examination on Twelve o'clock at night Pond, and also include another aim at to the strategy, "Pyramidal Epitome." On the third sol there is actually an AEGIS, the LIBS dimension where the wanderer selects its very own aim at prior to our team right here on Earth even see where it is! Energy was actually particularly tight today, since the CheMin group performs some housekeeping, specifically checking out unfilled tissues to prepare for the upcoming drill. The ambience staff includes numerous inspections to watch out for dirt devils as well as the dustiness of the environment, and APXS gauges the argon information of the setting. This is a solution for the seasonal modifications of the atmosphere, as argon is actually an inert gas that carries out certainly not react along with other components of the setting. It is actually merely handled by the temperature in several areas of the world-- generally the rods. DAN remains to track water in the subsurface, and radical-- conspicuously included throughout the photovoltaic tornado I was actually discussing earlier-- continues to gather data on the radiation setting.