.If you review this blogging site really frequently, you know that almost each time the vagabond picks up science, MAHLI and APXS pay attention to exciting (as well as easily accessible!) stones as intendeds. The vagabond science crew is actually, after all, built along with a considerable amount of rock hounds. But geology is not all stones, all the time-- sand is actually past stone that if buried as well as forced enough time will certainly end up being rock once more. Today was time for sand to shine, as the work space was cut by canals of sand of different colours and also brightnesses, and it had been nearly 500 sols since our experts got our final dedicated sand size along with APXS and also MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" aim at was one of the brighter sand patches while "Kidney Lake" was just one of the darker sand patches. APXS utilizes a special positioning setting over sand aim ats so the equipment receives close, but not too close, to the loosened product which might foul up the musical instrument. Not-rock was also the purview of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is actually scheduled for imaging looking for clouds and also dirt adversaries, and also changes in the sand as well as dust on top of the wanderer deck. Each Navcam as well as Mastcam are going to make commentaries to measure the amount of dirt in the atmosphere. Rapid eye movements will certainly monitor our weather along with frequent measurements, radical is going to track our radiation environment, as well as DAN will check out rock for signs of water underneath our disk path.