.If you review this weblog incredibly frequently, you recognize that almost every single time the rover stops for science, MAHLI and APXS focus on fascinating (and also accessible!) stones as aim ats. The rover science crew is actually, nevertheless, built along with a great deal of geologists. However geography is certainly not all stones, regularly-- sand is actually previous stone that if buried as well as pressurized long enough are going to become rock once more. Today was time for sand to shine, as the work space was actually reduced by troughs of sand of different colours and illuminations, and also it had been actually almost 500 sols given that our experts got our last dedicated sand measurement along with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" aim at was just one of the brighter sand spots while "Kidney Lake" was among the darker sand spots. APXS makes use of a special placement mode over sand aim ats so the musical instrument obtains close, but certainly not as well close, to the loose material which might foul up the guitar. Not-rock was likewise the territory of our environmental reviews. Navcam is booked for image resolution finding clouds and also dirt devils, and changes in the sand and dust in addition to the rover deck. Both Navcam and Mastcam will certainly create opinions to measure the quantity of dust in the setting. REMS will certainly monitor our climate with regular measurements, radical will monitor our radiation setting, and DAN is going to scan rock for indicators of water beneath our disk course.