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

.After completing the targeted as well as call scientific research, our company prepare to steer. As the scientific research staff possessed time to appear a little more at the data gathered because location, they found this target that cost returning for. We are actually steering back to the area of the white colored stones to do additional get in touch with scientific research on rocks that look comparable to the essential sulfur our experts found earlier this year. Preparation ahead, I got to look this travel on Friday, outlining the safest course and searching for car parking locations that were both good for communications as well as for doing get in touch with scientific research. The target "Lamb Creek" is about 50 meters (about 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride an obstacle-- the settlement of our images at that variety produces it tougher to identify these little stones. Our company perform possess truly excellent image resolution during that path, and the surface isn't extremely scary, so the Wanderer Planners are actually visiting make an effort to create it in one travel. In the course of the drive, our team will be taking a MARDI "pathway" film (a collection of photos looking listed below the rover for the whole entire span of the drive), which will help document the network. On the 2nd sol of the plan, our team do some additional atmospherical as well as untargeted science. We possess a Navcam suprahorizon film (checking out the sinkhole edge to analyze dust in the setting) and a dirt adversary motion picture. Our experts also possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the wanderer is going to autonomously choose a target to picture. Overnight, CheMin performs an "vacant cell" study to verify that the body is cleaned and all set for the upcoming testing campaign.