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

.If you review this blog post quite frequently, you recognize that virtually each time the wanderer stops for science, MAHLI and APXS pay attention to exciting (and obtainable!) stones as intendeds. The wanderer science crew is actually, nevertheless, built along with a great deal of geologists. But geology is certainly not all stones, regularly-- sand is actually former stone that if buried as well as pressed long enough will definitely come to be stone once more. Today was actually time for sand to radiate, as the work environment was actually reduced through troughs of sand of various shades as well as brightnesses, as well as it had been virtually 500 sols because our company obtained our last dedicated sand size along with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" target was one of the better sand patches while "Kidney Pond" was one of the darker sand spots. APXS uses an unique positioning mode over sand targets so the tool receives close, but certainly not too close, to the loosened material which can muck up the musical instrument. Not-rock was actually additionally the purview of our ecological reviews. Navcam is scheduled for image resolution looking for clouds and dust devils, as well as changes in the sand and dirt in addition to the vagabond deck. Each Navcam and also Mastcam will definitely help make opinions to evaluate the amount of dust in the setting. Rapid eye movements will definitely take note of our weather with routine measurements, radical will track our radiation atmosphere, and also DAN will scan rock for signs of water underneath our disk path.

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