This ORT has been going amazingly well so far. The science days are going off without a hitch. The days haven't been very intense for the most part, mostly standard SSI imaging, and weather measurements during morning, noon and night. The other night was a sample delivery to MECA OM, and that was cool. The RA acquired a sample, took some RAC images and then paused. During the pause, we actually switched out the boring baghouse dirt sample, and put in some interesting dirt (if you're into that kinda of thing). That way, the OM analysis would provide some data to analyze. Everything worked beautifully. Today is MECA Wet Chemistry Cell (WCl) delivery. I'll let you know how that goes next time.

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