Space

Sols 4325-4326: (Not Quite) Dipping Our Feet in the Sand

.If you read this blog post extremely usually, you know that virtually every single time the wanderer picks up science, MAHLI and also APXS concentrate on fascinating (as well as obtainable!) rocks as aim ats. The rover scientific research crew is actually, it goes without saying, created along with a considerable amount of geologists. Yet geology is actually not all rocks, continuously-- sand is actually past stone that if buried and also pressed enough time will definitely become stone once more. Today was opportunity for sand to radiate, as the workspace was actually cut through canals of sand of various colors and illuminations, and it had actually been almost five hundred sols given that we got our last devoted sand dimension along with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" target was one of the better sand patches while "Kidney Lake" was just one of the darker sand spots. APXS uses an exclusive placement method over sand aim ats so the musical instrument acquires close, but not as well close, to the loose material which could foul up the guitar. Not-rock was actually additionally the province of our ecological reviews. Navcam is booked for imaging seeking clouds and also dust evil ones, as well as improvements in the sand as well as dirt atop the vagabond deck. Both Navcam and Mastcam are going to help make commentaries to evaluate the amount of dirt in the setting. Rapid eye movements will definitely keep track of our climate with normal dimensions, RAD will monitor our radiation environment, and also DAN is going to look through rock for indications of water underneath our drive road.