.If you review this blog post quite typically, you understand that nearly every time the vagabond picks up science, MAHLI and also APXS focus on intriguing (and also easily accessible!) stones as targets. The rover scientific research team is, after all, developed with a considerable amount of rock hounds. However geography is certainly not all rocks, regularly-- sand is past rock that if laid to rest and forced enough time will come to be stone once more. Today was actually time for sand to beam, as the workspace was actually cut by canals of sand of various colors as well as brightnesses, and it had been almost five hundred sols considering that we got our last committed sand size along with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" aim at was one of the more vibrant sand spots while "Kidney Lake" was among the darker sand patches. APXS uses an exclusive placement mode over sand aim ats so the instrument receives close, however not too close, to the loose component which can muck up the musical instrument. Not-rock was actually also the province of our environmental monitorings. Navcam is booked for imaging seeking clouds as well as dust adversaries, as well as improvements in the sand as well as dirt on top of the rover deck. Each Navcam as well as Mastcam will certainly make observations to assess the quantity of dirt in the environment. REMS will keep an eye on our weather along with frequent dimensions, radical will certainly observe our radiation atmosphere, and also DAN will certainly browse rock for indications of water below our disk course.