.If you review this blog site really often, you recognize that nearly every time the rover stops for scientific research, MAHLI and also APXS pay attention to interesting (and obtainable!) rocks as aim ats. The wanderer science team is, after all, created with a considerable amount of geologists. However geography is actually certainly not all stones, constantly-- sand is actually former rock that if buried and also pressurized enough time will end up being rock again. Today was time for sand to sparkle, as the work area was actually cut by canals of sand of different colours as well as brightnesses, and it had been actually virtually five hundred sols because our team acquired our last specialized sand dimension along with APXS and also MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" target was one of the more beautiful sand spots while "Renal Lake" was just one of the darker sand spots. APXS uses an exclusive positioning setting over sand intendeds so the musical instrument receives close, yet not too close, to the loose product which can muck up the musical instrument. Not-rock was also the province of our ecological reviews. Navcam is actually arranged for imaging finding clouds and dust evil ones, and also modifications in the sand as well as dirt atop the rover deck. Both Navcam and also Mastcam will definitely help make remarks to determine the quantity of dust in the setting. REMS are going to monitor our climate along with regular measurements, radical will certainly track our radiation environment, and also DAN will definitely browse rock for indicators of water beneath our disk road.