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

.After wrapping up the targeted and also contact scientific research, our company're ready to drive. As the scientific research team possessed opportunity to look a bit more at the data gathered in that location, they found this intended that cost getting back for. We are actually driving back to the location of the white rocks to accomplish additional call scientific research on stones that appear identical to the elemental sulfur our company observed earlier this year. Planning in advance, I got to hunt this ride on Friday, outlining the best path and also seeking car parking places that were both suitable for communications as well as for performing contact science. The target "Lamb Creek" concerns fifty gauges (concerning 164 feets) to the northeast, which makes the travel an obstacle-- the resolution of our imagery at that range makes it harder to identify these tiny rocks. Our company carry out possess truly great imaging in that direction, and the landscapes isn't tremendously frightful, so the Rover Planners are actually mosting likely to make an effort to make it in one drive. During the disk, we will certainly be taking a MARDI "pathway" motion picture (a set of graphics looking listed below the vagabond for the entire duration of the disk), which will aid document the stations. On the 2nd sol of the plan, our team perform some extra atmospheric and also untargeted science. Our company have a Navcam suprahorizon film (checking out the scar edge to review dirt in the atmosphere) and also a dust adversary flick. Our team likewise have a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the rover will autonomously select an intended to picture. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "vacant tissue" review to confirm that the unit is actually cleaned as well as all set for the next sampling project.