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Sols 4331-4333: Today's Rover ABC-- Aurora, Backwards Driving, and also Chemistry, with a Side of Photos

.Chemistry is actually additionally including in the planning. The wanderer is secure on its own steering wheels, which means our experts can obtain the arm out as well as do an APXS size on the aim at "Midnight Pond," which MAHLI also photos. The LIBS examinations are actually seconding the APXS investigation on Midnight Lake, as well as include an additional target to the strategy, "Pyramidal Peak." On the third sol there is an AEGIS, the LIBS size where the wanderer chooses its own intended prior to our company listed here on Earth also observe where it is actually! Power was particularly limited today, considering that the CheMin staff carries out some housekeeping, in particular taking a look at vacant mobiles in preparation for the following practice. The atmosphere team adds a lot of examinations to watch out for dust devils and the dustiness of the ambience, as well as APXS evaluates the argon material of the environment. This is a procedure for the periodic changes of the environment, as argon is a passive gasoline that carries out certainly not react with other components of the ambience. It is actually merely handled by the temperature level in various areas of the planet-- mainly the rods. DAN remains to track water in the subsurface, and also RAD-- plainly included throughout the sun storm I was speaking about previously-- continues to pick up data on the radiation atmosphere.