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

.After finishing up the targeted and also call science, our experts prepare to steer. As the science staff had opportunity to appear a little bit even more at the information collected because location, they discovered this aim at that was worth returning for. Our company are actually driving back to the area of the white stones to perform even more contact scientific research on rocks that appear similar to the elemental sulfur our company found earlier this year. Organizing ahead, I got to search this ride on Friday, outlining the ideal course and also trying to find vehicle parking locations that were actually both good for interactions as well as for carrying out call scientific research. The target "Sheep Spring" concerns fifty gauges (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a problem-- the settlement of our images at that variety makes it harder to figure out these tiny stones. Our experts do possess really great imaging in that path, and the terrain isn't extremely distressing, so the Vagabond Planners are actually heading to make an effort to create it in one drive. During the drive, our experts are going to be actually taking a MARDI "walkway" movie (a collection of pictures looking below the wanderer for the whole entire span of the drive), which will definitely aid record the network. On the 2nd sol of the planning, we perform some extra climatic and also untargeted scientific research. We have a Navcam suprahorizon flick (looking at the sinkhole edge to examine dust in the environment) and also a dirt devil flick. Our company additionally possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the vagabond is going to autonomously select an intended to photo. Overnight, CheMin performs an "unfilled cell" study to verify that the system is actually cleaned out and also ready for the following tasting project.