Sols 4331-4333: Today’s Rover ABC– Aurora, Backwards Driving, as well as Chemistry, with a Side of Images

.Chemistry is actually additionally featuring in the program. The wanderer is steady on its own tires, which indicates we may get the upper arm out and do an APXS measurement on the aim at “Midnight Lake,” which MAHLI also pictures. The LIBS examinations are seconding the APXS inspection on Midnight Lake, and add another target to the plan, “Pyramidal Peak.” On the 3rd sol there is actually an AEGIS, the LIBS measurement where the wanderer chooses its own target prior to our team below on Earth even observe where it is!

Electrical power was specifically limited today, due to the fact that the CheMin group does some housekeeping, in particular looking at unfilled cells to prepare for the next practice. The ambience team adds several inspections to watch out for dirt devils and also the dustiness of the atmosphere, as well as APXS evaluates the argon content of the atmosphere. This is actually an action for the in season adjustments of the atmosphere, as argon is actually an inert fuel that does not react with other elements of the ambience.

It is actually just regulated due to the temp in several spots of the planet– primarily the posts. DAN remains to monitor water in the subsurface, and RAD– plainly featured throughout the solar tornado I was talking about previously– continues to gather data on the radiation atmosphere.