.If you review this blog site very frequently, you know that virtually every time the wanderer stops for science, MAHLI and also APXS concentrate on appealing (and available!) rocks as targets. The vagabond science team is, nevertheless, built along with a considerable amount of rock hounds. Yet geology is actually certainly not all rocks, constantly-- sand is past stone that if laid to rest and constrained long enough are going to become stone once again. Today was time for sand to shine, as the work area was cut through troughs of sand of different shades and illuminations, and also it had actually been actually nearly 500 sols due to the fact that our company obtained our last specialized sand measurement along with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" aim at was just one of the brighter sand spots while "Kidney Pond" was among the darker sand spots. APXS makes use of an unique positioning mode over sand targets so the musical instrument gets close, but certainly not as well close, to the loosened component which could possibly muck up the instrument. Not-rock was likewise the territory of our environmental reviews. Navcam is actually arranged for image resolution finding clouds as well as dirt adversaries, as well as improvements in the sand and also dust on top of the rover deck. Each Navcam and also Mastcam are going to make observations to determine the volume of dust in the ambience. REMS will definitely track our weather condition with normal dimensions, RAD will monitor our radiation environment, as well as DAN will definitely look through stone for signs of water beneath our drive pathway.