.If you read this blog site extremely commonly, you know that nearly every time the vagabond picks up scientific research, MAHLI and also APXS focus on fascinating (and also obtainable!) rocks as intendeds. The rover scientific research team is actually, nevertheless, built with a considerable amount of rock hounds. However geology is not all rocks, all the time-- sand is actually past stone that if buried and pressurized enough time are going to come to be rock once again. Today was actually time for sand to beam, as the workspace was actually cut by canals of sand of various shades and also brightnesses, and it had actually been actually almost 500 sols because our team got our last dedicated sand dimension with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" aim at was just one of the more vibrant sand patches while "Renal Lake" was one of the darker sand spots. APXS utilizes an unique placement mode over sand aim ats so the instrument obtains close, yet not as well close, to the loosened material which could muck up the instrument. Not-rock was additionally the purview of our environmental reviews. Navcam is actually arranged for image resolution looking for clouds as well as dust devils, and changes in the sand and dust in addition to the wanderer deck. Each Navcam and Mastcam are going to make commentaries to assess the amount of dust in the atmosphere. REMS are going to take note of our climate along with routine dimensions, radical will check our radiation atmosphere, and also DAN is going to peruse stone for indications of water below our disk course.