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

.If you review this blogging site incredibly often, you know that almost each time the vagabond stops for science, MAHLI as well as APXS pay attention to interesting (and available!) stones as targets. The vagabond science crew is actually, after all, developed with a great deal of geologists. Yet geology is actually certainly not all stones, constantly-- sand is past rock that if buried as well as pressurized enough time will definitely come to be stone once again. Today was actually opportunity for sand to shine, as the office was cut by troughs of sand of different colors as well as brightnesses, as well as it had been almost 500 sols because our experts got our last dedicated sand size with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" intended was just one of the more beautiful sand patches while "Renal Pond" was just one of the darker sand patches. APXS utilizes an unique positioning setting over sand targets so the musical instrument receives close, but certainly not also close, to the loosened material which might muck up the equipment. Not-rock was also the territory of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is arranged for imaging choosing clouds and dust devils, and improvements in the sand and also dust on top of the rover deck. Each Navcam as well as Mastcam are going to produce remarks to evaluate the volume of dirt in the ambience. Rapid eye movements are going to monitor our weather condition with normal dimensions, RAD will definitely check our radiation setting, and also DAN is going to peruse stone for indicators of water beneath our disk path.