.If you review this blog site really often, you know that virtually whenever the rover picks up science, MAHLI and also APXS concentrate on intriguing (and also available!) stones as targets. The wanderer scientific research crew is, after all, constructed with a ton of geologists. Yet geography is certainly not all rocks, at all times-- sand is previous stone that if laid to rest and also constrained long enough will definitely come to be rock once more. Today was actually opportunity for sand to beam, as the work space was reduced through troughs of sand of various colors as well as brightnesses, as well as it had been actually virtually five hundred sols due to the fact that our company got our final committed sand measurement along with APXS and also MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" aim at was just one of the brighter sand patches while "Renal Pond" was among the darker sand spots. APXS makes use of an unique positioning mode over sand aim ats so the guitar obtains close, but certainly not also close, to the loosened material which could muck up the musical instrument. Not-rock was actually likewise the province of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is actually set up for imaging choosing clouds and also dust devils, and also changes in the sand as well as dust in addition to the rover deck. Both Navcam as well as Mastcam will help make observations to determine the amount of dust in the environment. Rapid eye movements are going to take note of our weather condition along with regular sizes, RAD will certainly track our radiation setting, and also DAN will peruse stone for indicators of water below our drive path.