.If you review this blog post quite commonly, you recognize that virtually each time the wanderer picks up science, MAHLI and APXS pay attention to exciting (and also obtainable!) rocks as intendeds. The wanderer scientific research group is actually, nevertheless, created along with a lot of rock hounds. However geology is actually not all rocks, constantly-- sand is previous rock that if buried and also pressed enough time are going to become stone once more. Today was actually time for sand to beam, as the work environment was reduced by troughs of sand of different colors and also brightnesses, and also it had actually been actually nearly 500 sols because we got our last specialized sand size with APXS and MAHLI. The "Pumice Flat" aim at was one of the more beautiful sand spots while "Renal Pond" was just one of the darker sand spots. APXS makes use of an exclusive placement setting over sand intendeds so the musical instrument gets close, yet not also close, to the loose component which might foul up the guitar. Not-rock was actually also the province of our ecological monitorings. Navcam is planned for imaging seeking out clouds as well as dirt devils, and also improvements in the sand and also dust atop the rover deck. Each Navcam as well as Mastcam will definitely produce remarks to determine the amount of dirt in the environment. REMS will certainly track our weather along with frequent dimensions, radical will certainly track our radiation atmosphere, and DAN will certainly scan rock for indicators of water underneath our drive path.