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

.After completing the targeted and also get in touch with science, we prepare to drive. As the science team possessed time to appear a bit more at the data gathered because area, they found this target that was worth returning for. Our experts are steering back to the area of the white colored stones to perform additional contact science on rocks that appear identical to the elemental sulfur we saw earlier this year. Organizing in advance, I reached look this travel on Friday, mapping out the safest path and also looking for vehicle parking locations that were each great for communications as well as for carrying out connect with scientific research. The intended "Lambs Spring" has to do with 50 gauges (regarding 164 feets) to the northeast, that makes the travel an obstacle-- the settlement of our imagery at that selection creates it more difficult to determine these small rocks. We do possess definitely excellent image resolution because instructions, as well as the surface isn't incredibly terrifying, so the Rover Planners are mosting likely to try to produce it in one ride. In the course of the drive, we will be taking a MARDI "pavement" motion picture (a collection of images looking below the rover for the whole length of the disk), which will certainly assist document the stations. On the 2nd sol of the planning, our team do some added atmospherical and also untargeted science. We have a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (checking out the sinkhole rim to review dirt in the environment) and also a dirt adversary film. Our company also have a ChemCam AEGIS review, where the wanderer will autonomously pick a target to photo. Overnight, CheMin performs an "empty tissue" analysis to confirm that the system is actually cleaned and ready for the next tasting campaign.