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

.After finishing up the targeted and contact scientific research, we're ready to steer. As the scientific research team possessed time to appear a little bit much more at the data accumulated during that area, they uncovered this intended that was worth going back for. We are driving back to the place of the white colored stones to do more call scientific research on stones that appear identical to the essential sulfur we found earlier this year. Preparation in advance, I got to hunt this drive on Friday, laying out the ideal course and trying to find car park spots that were each suitable for communications in addition to for carrying out call science. The target "Sheep Spring" is about fifty gauges (concerning 164 feets) to the northeast, which makes the travel a difficulty-- the resolution of our photos at that assortment makes it more difficult to figure out these small stones. We carry out have really good imaging during that path, and the landscapes isn't very terrifying, so the Vagabond Planners are going to make an effort to produce it in one drive. In the course of the disk, we are going to be taking a MARDI "pathway" flick (a series of pictures looking below the rover for the entire size of the disk), which are going to help document the stations. On the 2nd sol of the strategy, our company carry out some added climatic as well as untargeted scientific research. Our team possess a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (taking a look at the sinkhole rim to analyze dirt in the environment) and a dirt adversary movie. We additionally have a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the rover is going to autonomously choose an aim at to picture. Overnight, CheMin performs an "unfilled cell" review to affirm that the body is cleared out and ready for the following sampling campaign.