At
its present area for assessing a dynamic sand hill, Nasa's Curiosity Mars
wanderer is including some specimen handling moves not already utilized on the
Red Planet.
Sand
from the second and third specimens the wanderer is scooping from "Namib Dune"
will be sorted by grain size with two sifters.
The
coarser strainer is making its presentation, and utilizing it likewise changes
the way the treated specimen is utilized for lab examination inside the
meanderer.
"It
was really testing to crash into the inclining sand and afterward transform on
the sand into the position that was the best to ponder the ridges," said
Michael McHenry from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
Interest
has gathered up test material at stand out other site since it arrived on Mars
in August 2012.
The
mission's present work is the principal close-up investigation of dynamic sand
rises anyplace other than the Earth.
Examination
of the rises is giving data about how wind moves and sorts sand particles in conditions
with substantially less climate and less gravity than on the Earth.
Interest
scooped its first rise test on January 14 yet the wanderer examined the hill
first by scraping it with a wheel.
Interest
gathered its second scoop on January 19. This is the point at which the coarser
sifter became an integral factor.
"What
you have left is prevalently grains that are littler than one mm and bigger
than 150 microns," said John Michael Morookian, meanderer arranging
foreman for Curiosity.
Interest
achieved the base of Mount Sharp in 2014 after productively researching
outcrops closer to its arrival site and afterward trekking to the layered
mountain.
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