Space

Sols 4331-4333: Today's Rover ABC-- Aurora, In Reverse Driving, as well as Chemical make up, with a Side of Graphics

.Chemical make up is additionally including in the strategy. The rover is actually steady on its own tires, which means our team can receive the upper arm out and carry out an APXS dimension on the intended "Midnight Lake," which MAHLI also images. The LIBS examinations are seconding the APXS investigation on Midnight Pond, and also incorporate yet another intended to the program, "Pyramidal Pinnacle." On the third sol there is actually an AEGIS, the LIBS dimension where the rover chooses its personal intended prior to our team here in the world even find where it is actually! Electrical power was especially tight today, given that the CheMin staff carries out some housekeeping, especially looking at empty tissues to prepare for the next exercise. The environment group adds numerous investigations to watch out for dust devils and the dustiness of the atmosphere, and APXS determines the argon content of the atmosphere. This is actually a measure for the seasonal improvements of the setting, as argon is an unreactive gas that performs not respond along with other components of the atmosphere. It is merely regulated by the temp in various spots of the earth-- mainly the rods. DAN continues to track water in the subsurface, as well as RAD-- plainly included during the solar storm I was referring to previously-- remains to gather information on the radiation atmosphere.