.If you review this blogging site extremely frequently, you know that virtually every time the vagabond stops for science, MAHLI and APXS concentrate on exciting (and also easily accessible!) rocks as aim ats. The vagabond scientific research crew is actually, besides, developed along with a bunch of geologists. Yet geology is actually not all stones, at all times-- sand is actually former stone that if laid to rest and forced enough time will come to be stone once again. Today was time for sand to sparkle, as the work environment was cut by canals of sand of different colours and brightnesses, and also it had been almost five hundred sols given that our team obtained our final committed sand dimension along with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" aim at was just one of the better sand spots while "Renal Pond" was just one of the darker sand spots. APXS uses a special placement method over sand targets so the instrument gets close, but certainly not as well close, to the loose component which can foul up the guitar. Not-rock was likewise the territory of our environmental observations. Navcam is planned for image resolution choosing clouds and dirt devils, and improvements in the sand as well as dirt atop the rover deck. Each Navcam and also Mastcam will help make commentaries to gauge the amount of dust in the atmosphere. REMS are going to monitor our weather condition along with regular measurements, radical will definitely check our radiation environment, as well as DAN will peruse rock for indications of water below our drive course.