.If you review this blogging site extremely frequently, you know that nearly whenever the wanderer picks up science, MAHLI and APXS concentrate on intriguing (as well as accessible!) rocks as aim ats. The wanderer science staff is, nevertheless, built along with a bunch of rock hounds. However geology is actually not all rocks, at all times-- sand is actually past stone that if laid to rest and pressed long enough will certainly end up being stone once more. Today was time for sand to radiate, as the workspace was actually reduced by canals of sand of different colors and also brightnesses, and also it had actually been almost 500 sols given that we got our last devoted sand dimension with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" intended was just one of the better sand patches while "Renal Pond" was among the darker sand patches. APXS makes use of a special positioning setting over sand aim ats so the tool gets close, but certainly not also close, to the loosened material which might foul up the musical instrument. Not-rock was actually additionally the province of our environmental observations. Navcam is arranged for image resolution finding clouds as well as dirt adversaries, and improvements in the sand and also dirt atop the vagabond deck. Both Navcam as well as Mastcam are going to create findings to evaluate the quantity of dust in the atmosphere. REMS will certainly monitor our weather along with normal measurements, RAD will track our radiation atmosphere, and DAN will look through rock for indicators of water underneath our drive course.