.If you read this blog post incredibly often, you recognize that virtually every time the wanderer stops for science, MAHLI as well as APXS pay attention to interesting (and obtainable!) rocks as targets. The rover scientific research staff is actually, besides, created along with a bunch of rock hounds. But geology is actually certainly not all rocks, all the time-- sand is actually former stone that if laid to rest and also forced enough time are going to come to be rock once again. Today was actually time for sand to shine, as the workspace was reduced by troughs of sand of various shades as well as illuminations, as well as it had actually been actually nearly five hundred sols considering that our team acquired our last committed sand dimension along with APXS and also MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" intended was just one of the better sand spots while "Renal Lake" was one of the darker sand spots. APXS makes use of an unique placement setting over sand aim ats so the tool gets close, but not too close, to the loose material which can muck up the equipment. Not-rock was actually also the purview of our environmental reviews. Navcam is actually set up for image resolution looking for clouds and dirt adversaries, and modifications in the sand as well as dirt in addition to the rover deck. Each Navcam as well as Mastcam are going to help make opinions to evaluate the volume of dirt in the setting. REMS are going to take note of our weather with normal dimensions, radical will definitely check our radiation environment, and also DAN will certainly peruse stone for indicators of water beneath our drive course.