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

.After completing the targeted as well as contact scientific research, our company prepare to drive. As the scientific research crew had time to look a little much more at the data picked up in that location, they discovered this intended that was worth going back for. Our team are driving back to the location of the white colored rocks to carry out even more call science on stones that appear comparable to the essential sulfur our team viewed earlier this year. Organizing ahead, I reached scout this ride on Friday, setting out the best pathway and also searching for car parking areas that were actually each suitable for communications in addition to for doing get in touch with science. The target "Lamb Creek" concerns 50 meters (concerning 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a challenge-- the resolution of our photos at that range produces it more difficult to identify these tiny stones. Our company perform have actually good imaging during that instructions, and the surface isn't incredibly frightful, so the Rover Planners are actually heading to make an effort to produce it in one ride. In the course of the disk, our company will be actually taking a MARDI "pavement" movie (a set of photos appearing listed below the wanderer for the entire size of the drive), which will assist document the stations. On the 2nd sol of the planning, we do some extra climatic and untargeted scientific research. Our experts possess a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (taking a look at the scar edge to review dirt in the atmosphere) as well as a dust adversary movie. We also have a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the vagabond will autonomously select an intended to picture. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "unfilled cell" study to affirm that the body is cleaned out and prepared for the following testing campaign.