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Sols 4314-4315: Stand by, What Was That Back There?

.After concluding the targeted and get in touch with scientific research, our experts prepare to drive. As the scientific research staff possessed opportunity to look a little even more at the records gathered during that area, they uncovered this aim at that was worth getting back for. Our company are driving back to the area of the white colored rocks to carry out even more call science on stones that appear similar to the elemental sulfur we viewed previously this year. Planning in advance, I got to look this ride on Friday, setting out the most safe course and searching for auto parking locations that were actually both suitable for interactions in addition to for carrying out connect with science. The target "Sheep Spring" concerns fifty gauges (about 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a difficulty-- the resolution of our images at that array creates it more challenging to figure out these little rocks. Our experts perform have truly great imaging because instructions, and also the surface isn't extremely terrifying, so the Wanderer Planners are actually heading to try to produce it in one ride. Throughout the disk, our team are going to be taking a MARDI "walkway" film (a collection of pictures looking below the rover for the whole entire duration of the drive), which will definitely aid record the network. On the second sol of the plan, our team do some additional atmospherical as well as untargeted scientific research. Our experts have a Navcam suprahorizon flick (taking a look at the crater rim to analyze dust in the ambience) as well as a dust devil motion picture. Our company likewise have a ChemCam AEGIS review, where the wanderer will autonomously choose an aim at to graphic. Overnight, CheMin does an "vacant tissue" analysis to confirm that the device is actually cleaned out and also all set for the following sampling project.