.If you read this blog site extremely frequently, you recognize that virtually whenever the wanderer picks up science, MAHLI and APXS concentrate on interesting (and accessible!) stones as aim ats. The wanderer scientific research crew is actually, nevertheless, created with a lot of geologists. Yet geology is not all rocks, constantly-- sand is past stone that if laid to rest and also constrained enough time will certainly become stone once more. Today was actually opportunity for sand to shine, as the office was cut through troughs of sand of various colors and also illuminations, and it had been virtually five hundred sols given that we acquired our last committed sand size along with APXS and also MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" target was among the more vibrant sand spots while "Kidney Lake" was just one of the darker sand patches. APXS makes use of a special positioning mode over sand aim ats so the guitar receives close, yet not also close, to the loose product which might foul up the guitar. Not-rock was actually additionally the province of our ecological observations. Navcam is set up for image resolution seeking out clouds and dirt devils, and modifications in the sand and also dirt on top of the wanderer deck. Each Navcam and Mastcam will definitely make observations to measure the quantity of dust in the environment. Rapid eye movements will definitely keep track of our weather with routine sizes, RAD will definitely observe our radiation atmosphere, and DAN is going to peruse rock for signs of water underneath our drive path.