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

.If you review this weblog incredibly frequently, you recognize that virtually whenever the vagabond picks up scientific research, MAHLI as well as APXS pay attention to fascinating (and easily accessible!) rocks as targets. The rover science team is actually, it goes without saying, created along with a considerable amount of rock hounds. However geography is not all rocks, regularly-- sand is actually past stone that if buried and also forced enough time are going to come to be rock again. Today was actually time for sand to radiate, as the work environment was actually reduced by canals of sand of various colors as well as brightnesses, as well as it had been virtually five hundred sols since our experts got our last committed sand dimension with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" target was one of the more vibrant sand patches while "Kidney Pond" was among the darker sand patches. APXS makes use of an exclusive placement setting over sand targets so the instrument acquires close, but not as well close, to the loose product which could possibly muck up the guitar. Not-rock was additionally the province of our environmental observations. Navcam is booked for image resolution seeking clouds as well as dust devils, and also changes in the sand as well as dirt in addition to the vagabond deck. Each Navcam as well as Mastcam will definitely create observations to gauge the amount of dirt in the atmosphere. Rapid eye movements are going to keep track of our weather with regular dimensions, radical will check our radiation atmosphere, and also DAN is going to scan rock for indications of water underneath our disk road.