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

.After completing the targeted as well as call science, our experts're ready to drive. As the scientific research staff possessed time to appear a little bit even more at the records picked up in that region, they uncovered this intended that cost getting back for. Our company are driving back to the location of the white stones to carry out additional call scientific research on rocks that look similar to the essential sulfur we saw earlier this year. Organizing ahead, I got to look this drive on Friday, outlining the safest course and also seeking car park areas that were actually each good for interactions and also for performing get in touch with scientific research. The intended "Lambs Spring" has to do with fifty gauges (concerning 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the ride a challenge-- the settlement of our photos at that selection creates it more difficult to identify these tiny rocks. Our team carry out possess really excellent image resolution in that path, and the landscapes isn't super scary, so the Wanderer Planners are going to make an effort to produce it in one travel. Throughout the disk, our company will certainly be taking a MARDI "pavement" flick (a collection of images looking below the vagabond for the whole length of the disk), which will definitely aid chronicle the stations. On the second sol of the program, our experts do some added climatic as well as untargeted scientific research. Our team have a Navcam suprahorizon flick (looking at the scar edge to assess dirt in the ambience) and a dirt devil motion picture. Our company also have a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the rover will autonomously select an intended to graphic. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "vacant cell" review to confirm that the device is cleared out and also prepared for the upcoming testing campaign.