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

.After wrapping up the targeted and call science, our company prepare to steer. As the scientific research group possessed time to look a little bit extra at the data gathered during that location, they found this target that deserved going back for. Our experts are actually steering back to the location of the white colored rocks to accomplish additional get in touch with science on stones that look identical to the essential sulfur our experts observed earlier this year. Preparation ahead of time, I reached search this drive on Friday, laying out the ideal road and also trying to find vehicle parking places that were both great for communications and also for doing get in touch with scientific research. The target "Sheep Spring" concerns 50 meters (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a difficulty-- the resolution of our imagery at that array produces it harder to determine these little rocks. Our team carry out possess truly excellent image resolution during that direction, and also the landscapes isn't extremely distressing, so the Wanderer Planners are actually mosting likely to make an effort to make it in one travel. In the course of the disk, our experts will certainly be taking a MARDI "walkway" movie (a set of photos looking below the rover for the entire span of the disk), which will definitely assist chronicle the channel. On the second sol of the program, our team do some additional climatic and untargeted science. Our team have a Navcam suprahorizon movie (considering the sinkhole edge to analyze dirt in the ambience) and a dirt devil flick. Our company likewise possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the vagabond will autonomously pick an intended to photo. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "empty cell" evaluation to verify that the system is actually cleaned out and all set for the upcoming sampling project.