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

.If you review this blogging site very usually, you understand that nearly each time the vagabond stops for scientific research, MAHLI and APXS pay attention to intriguing (and also accessible!) stones as aim ats. The wanderer scientific research crew is, besides, created with a ton of geologists. However geography is actually certainly not all stones, regularly-- sand is previous rock that if buried as well as pressurized long enough will end up being stone once more. Today was actually time for sand to radiate, as the work environment was cut by troughs of sand of various colours and also brightnesses, and it had actually been actually virtually five hundred sols considering that our team obtained our last specialized sand measurement with APXS and also MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" aim at was one of the brighter sand patches while "Renal Lake" was among the darker sand patches. APXS makes use of an unique positioning mode over sand intendeds so the instrument gets close, yet not as well close, to the loose product which could possibly foul up the tool. Not-rock was additionally the province of our ecological reviews. Navcam is planned for image resolution choosing clouds and also dirt adversaries, and also changes in the sand and also dirt on top of the wanderer deck. Each Navcam and also Mastcam are going to produce findings to determine the amount of dust in the atmosphere. REMS will take note of our climate with normal dimensions, radical will track our radiation environment, and DAN will definitely browse rock for indicators of water beneath our disk path.