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Sols 4331-4333: Today's Vagabond ABC-- Aurora, Backwards Driving, and Chemistry, along with a Side of Pictures

.Chemistry is likewise featuring in the strategy. The rover is actually secure on its own tires, which indicates our company may get the upper arm out and also do an APXS measurement on the aim at "Midnight Pond," which MAHLI additionally pictures. The LIBS inspections are actually furthering the APXS inspection on Midnight Pond, and include another target to the strategy, "Pyramidal Epitome." On the 3rd sol there is actually an AEGIS, the LIBS measurement where the wanderer picks its very own target just before our company right here in the world also see where it is actually! Power was actually specifically tight today, due to the fact that the CheMin group does some housekeeping, specifically checking out vacant mobiles in preparation for the next practice. The ambience crew includes numerous investigations to keep an eye out for dirt evil ones and also the dustiness of the setting, and also APXS gauges the argon material of the ambience. This is a step for the periodic adjustments of the ambience, as argon is an inert gasoline that performs not react along with various other parts of the setting. It is just handled by the temperature in various areas of the world-- primarily the posts. DAN remains to check water in the subsurface, and radical-- conspicuously featured in the course of the sunlight tornado I was actually talking about previously-- remains to collect information on the radiation environment.