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

.If you read this weblog really frequently, you understand that virtually every single time the wanderer picks up scientific research, MAHLI and APXS focus on fascinating (as well as obtainable!) rocks as intendeds. The vagabond scientific research team is actually, besides, built along with a bunch of rock hounds. Yet geology is actually certainly not all stones, continuously-- sand is actually former rock that if laid to rest and also pressed long enough will certainly come to be stone once again. Today was time for sand to shine, as the work environment was actually cut through canals of sand of various colours and illuminations, and also it had been actually almost 500 sols given that we obtained our final specialized sand size with APXS and also MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" intended was one of the brighter sand patches while "Kidney Lake" was among the darker sand spots. APXS utilizes an exclusive placement method over sand intendeds so the equipment acquires close, but certainly not also close, to the loose material which could foul up the equipment. Not-rock was actually likewise the province of our environmental reviews. Navcam is actually set up for imaging choosing clouds as well as dirt devils, as well as modifications in the sand and dust on top of the wanderer deck. Each Navcam and Mastcam will definitely make findings to gauge the amount of dust in the environment. Rapid eye movements are going to track our weather condition with frequent measurements, RAD will definitely check our radiation environment, and DAN is going to scan rock for indicators of water under our drive course.