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Sols 4325-4326: (Almost) Soaking Our Toes in the Sand

.If you review this blog post extremely often, you understand that nearly every single time the vagabond picks up scientific research, MAHLI and APXS concentrate on intriguing (as well as available!) rocks as targets. The rover science team is, it goes without saying, constructed with a great deal of rock hounds. However geology is certainly not all stones, regularly-- sand is actually past stone that if buried and also pressurized long enough will come to be stone once again. Today was actually time for sand to radiate, as the work area was actually cut by canals of sand of various colors and illuminations, as well as it had actually been actually almost 500 sols since our team got our last specialized sand measurement along with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" intended was one of the better sand spots while "Renal Lake" was one of the darker sand patches. APXS utilizes a special positioning setting over sand aim ats so the musical instrument receives close, however not too close, to the loose component which could foul up the instrument. Not-rock was additionally the territory of our environmental reviews. Navcam is scheduled for image resolution seeking clouds as well as dirt devils, and also improvements in the sand and also dust atop the vagabond deck. Both Navcam and Mastcam will produce commentaries to determine the quantity of dirt in the atmosphere. REMS will definitely keep track of our weather condition with frequent sizes, radical will definitely track our radiation setting, and DAN will definitely peruse rock for indicators of water underneath our drive course.