.If you read this blog incredibly often, you understand that virtually whenever the wanderer picks up science, MAHLI and also APXS pay attention to appealing (and also easily accessible!) rocks as aim ats. The wanderer scientific research group is, nevertheless, built with a great deal of rock hounds. However geography is actually certainly not all rocks, at all times-- sand is former rock that if buried and pressurized long enough are going to come to be rock once again. Today was actually opportunity for sand to shine, as the work space was actually reduced through troughs of sand of various shades and also brightnesses, as well as it had actually been actually almost five hundred sols since our company obtained our final committed sand measurement along with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" intended was just one of the more beautiful sand patches while "Renal Lake" was among the darker sand patches. APXS uses an exclusive positioning setting over sand aim ats so the tool receives close, however not also close, to the loose component which can muck up the tool. Not-rock was actually also the province of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is booked for image resolution finding clouds and dust evil ones, as well as changes in the sand and dirt on top of the rover deck. Both Navcam as well as Mastcam will definitely create opinions to measure the amount of dust in the atmosphere. REMS are going to monitor our weather with regular dimensions, RAD is going to observe our radiation atmosphere, and DAN will certainly look through stone for indications of water under our drive path.