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Sols 4314-4315: Wait, What Was Actually That Back There?

.After concluding the targeted and also contact science, our company're ready to drive. As the scientific research team had time to appear a bit much more at the data accumulated in that region, they found this intended that was worth returning for. Our team are driving back to the location of the white colored stones to perform more connect with scientific research on rocks that look similar to the essential sulfur our team saw previously this year. Preparing in advance, I came to scout this drive on Friday, mapping out the ideal pathway and also looking for vehicle parking places that were actually both good for communications and also for performing call scientific research. The target "Sheep Spring" is about fifty gauges (about 164 feets) to the northeast, that makes the travel a difficulty-- the settlement of our photos at that range creates it harder to spot these tiny stones. Our company do have truly excellent imaging because path, and also the landscapes isn't extremely scary, so the Wanderer Planners are going to try to make it in one ride. In the course of the drive, our team will certainly be actually taking a MARDI "pavement" flick (a collection of pictures appearing below the wanderer for the whole entire duration of the disk), which will certainly assist document the network. On the 2nd sol of the planning, our team do some extra atmospheric and also untargeted scientific research. Our experts have a Navcam suprahorizon movie (looking at the hole rim to examine dust in the ambience) and a dust devil movie. Our team additionally possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the rover is going to autonomously decide on an aim at to picture. Overnight, CheMin does an "unfilled tissue" evaluation to confirm that the body is actually cleaned as well as all set for the following tasting initiative.