.If you read this blog site extremely typically, you recognize that nearly every single time the vagabond stops for science, MAHLI and also APXS pay attention to interesting (as well as obtainable!) rocks as aim ats. The wanderer scientific research group is, nevertheless, created along with a great deal of geologists. But geology is actually not all stones, all the time-- sand is former stone that if buried and pressed enough time will certainly come to be stone once more. Today was time for sand to radiate, as the workspace was cut by canals of sand of different colours and also illuminations, and it had been virtually 500 sols given that our experts obtained our final dedicated sand dimension with APXS and also MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" aim at was just one of the more vibrant sand spots while "Kidney Lake" was one of the darker sand patches. APXS uses a special positioning method over sand intendeds so the musical instrument obtains close, but not also close, to the loose product which could muck up the guitar. Not-rock was also the province of our ecological reviews. Navcam is actually planned for image resolution finding clouds and dust devils, and also improvements in the sand and dirt on top of the rover deck. Each Navcam and also Mastcam will definitely help make observations to gauge the quantity of dirt in the environment. REMS will keep an eye on our weather with normal measurements, radical will definitely monitor our radiation environment, and DAN will certainly peruse rock for indications of water below our disk path.