.If you review this blog site very often, you know that almost each time the rover stops for science, MAHLI as well as APXS pay attention to intriguing (and also easily accessible!) rocks as aim ats. The rover scientific research group is, nevertheless, constructed along with a great deal of rock hounds. Yet geography is actually not all rocks, regularly-- sand is past rock that if laid to rest and pressed enough time will certainly become rock once more. Today was time for sand to beam, as the work area was reduced through canals of sand of different shades and also brightnesses, as well as it had been almost 500 sols considering that our experts acquired our last committed sand dimension with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" intended was one of the better sand patches while "Kidney Pond" was among the darker sand spots. APXS makes use of an exclusive positioning mode over sand targets so the tool receives close, but certainly not also close, to the loose material which can muck up the tool. Not-rock was actually additionally the territory of our environmental observations. Navcam is arranged for image resolution looking for clouds and also dirt evil ones, as well as improvements in the sand and also dust atop the vagabond deck. Each Navcam and Mastcam will produce remarks to evaluate the volume of dust in the setting. Rapid eye movements will certainly keep an eye on our climate with routine dimensions, radical will monitor our radiation environment, and DAN will check out rock for signs of water beneath our drive path.