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

.Chemical make up is also featuring in the program. The vagabond is actually steady on its own wheels, which indicates we can receive the arm out as well as do an APXS measurement on the aim at "Twelve o'clock at night Lake," which MAHLI likewise graphics. The LIBS inspections are actually seconding the APXS investigation on Midnight Pond, and also add another intended to the strategy, "Pyramidal Peak." On the 3rd sol there is actually an AEGIS, the LIBS measurement where the vagabond chooses its personal target just before our experts listed here in the world even see where it is actually! Electrical power was especially strict today, because the CheMin group carries out some housekeeping, particularly examining empty cells to prepare for the next exercise. The ambience crew adds many inspections to look out for dust devils and also the dustiness of the environment, and also APXS assesses the argon web content of the environment. This is a solution for the in season adjustments of the setting, as argon is a passive gas that carries out certainly not react along with other components of the setting. It is actually only managed by the temperature level in a variety of locations of the world-- generally the posts. DAN remains to keep an eye on water in the subsurface, and RAD-- plainly included during the photovoltaic storm I was speaking about earlier-- continues to pick up records on the radiation environment.