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

.If you review this blogging site incredibly often, you understand that virtually whenever the wanderer picks up scientific research, MAHLI and APXS concentrate on appealing (as well as available!) rocks as aim ats. The wanderer science crew is actually, besides, created with a ton of rock hounds. Yet geology is actually not all stones, regularly-- sand is past stone that if buried and forced enough time will definitely end up being stone once again. Today was actually opportunity for sand to beam, as the work area was cut through canals of sand of various shades and also illuminations, and it had actually been nearly five hundred sols considering that we acquired our last specialized sand measurement along with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" intended was just one of the better sand spots while "Kidney Lake" was among the darker sand patches. APXS utilizes an unique positioning method over sand targets so the guitar obtains close, however certainly not also close, to the loose component which could foul up the guitar. Not-rock was actually additionally the territory of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is scheduled for imaging choosing clouds as well as dirt devils, and also adjustments in the sand and also dirt in addition to the wanderer deck. Both Navcam and Mastcam will certainly create remarks to measure the quantity of dust in the ambience. Rapid eye movements are going to keep track of our weather condition with routine sizes, RAD is going to monitor our radiation setting, and also DAN will check out stone for indications of water beneath our drive pathway.