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Sols 4331-4333: Today's Vagabond ABC-- Aurora, Back Driving, as well as Chemical make up, with a Side of Pictures

.Chemistry is actually also featuring in the program. The vagabond is secure on its own steering wheels, which suggests our company may obtain the arm out as well as 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 Lake, and also include another target to the strategy, "Pyramidal Peak." On the third sol there is actually an AEGIS, the LIBS measurement where the rover chooses its very own aim at before we listed below in the world even find where it is actually! Power was particularly tight today, considering that the CheMin group does some housekeeping, in particular taking a look at vacant mobiles in preparation for the upcoming drill. The environment team includes lots of examinations to keep an eye out for dirt adversaries as well as the dustiness of the setting, and also APXS assesses the argon information of the ambience. This is a procedure for the in season changes of the ambience, as argon is a passive fuel that carries out certainly not react along with other elements of the environment. It is actually just handled by the temperature in numerous areas of the planet-- mostly the rods. DAN continues to check water in the subsurface, as well as RAD-- prominently included during the course of the photovoltaic storm I was actually speaking about earlier-- remains to accumulate information on the radiation environment.

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