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

.After concluding the targeted and call scientific research, our experts prepare to steer. As the scientific research group possessed time to look a little more at the records gathered in that area, they discovered this aim at that deserved going back for. We are driving back to the area of the white rocks to carry out additional get in touch with scientific research on stones that look similar to the elemental sulfur our company viewed earlier this year. Planning in advance, I came to look this ride on Friday, laying out the safest road and seeking auto parking places that were actually each great for communications and also for carrying out contact science. The target "Sheep Spring" has to do with 50 gauges (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the travel a difficulty-- the resolution of our images at that range produces it more challenging to identify these small rocks. Our company carry out have definitely great image resolution during that instructions, as well as the terrain isn't tremendously distressing, so the Rover Planners are heading to make an effort to create it in one ride. During the course of the drive, our team will certainly be actually taking a MARDI "sidewalk" movie (a series of images appearing below the vagabond for the whole span of the drive), which will aid chronicle the network. On the second sol of the plan, our team perform some additional climatic as well as untargeted science. Our experts possess a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (taking a look at the scar edge to evaluate dust in the ambience) as well as a dust evil one flick. Our experts also possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the vagabond is going to autonomously pick a target to image. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "vacant tissue" analysis to verify that the device is cleared out and also prepared for the next testing campaign.