.If you review this blogging site really usually, you know that nearly whenever the wanderer stops for scientific research, MAHLI and also APXS focus on fascinating (and also obtainable!) stones as aim ats. The vagabond scientific research team is, besides, created with a considerable amount of rock hounds. Yet geology is actually certainly not all stones, all the time-- sand is actually past rock that if buried as well as pressurized enough time will become stone again. Today was time for sand to radiate, as the workspace was cut by canals of sand of various shades as well as illuminations, as well as it had actually been actually almost 500 sols due to the fact that we obtained our last specialized sand size with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" target was one of the brighter sand patches while "Kidney Pond" was one of the darker sand spots. APXS uses an exclusive placement mode over sand intendeds so the instrument gets close, but not too close, to the loose component which might foul up the tool. Not-rock was likewise the territory of our ecological observations. Navcam is actually set up for imaging finding clouds as well as dust adversaries, and changes in the sand and dirt in addition to the rover deck. Both Navcam and Mastcam will definitely help make remarks to evaluate the volume of dirt in the setting. Rapid eye movements will track our climate along with normal dimensions, radical will definitely monitor our radiation atmosphere, and also DAN is going to browse rock for signs of water below our drive path.