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

.After finishing up the targeted and also get in touch with scientific research, we prepare to drive. As the scientific research team had time to appear a little bit more at the data picked up during that area, they found this aim at that was worth going back for. Our team are actually steering back to the place of the white stones to accomplish additional contact science on rocks that look identical to the essential sulfur we viewed previously this year. Planning ahead of time, I got to hunt this ride on Friday, laying out the best road as well as seeking car parking places that were both good for communications in addition to for performing get in touch with scientific research. The target "Lambs Creek" concerns fifty gauges (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the drive a difficulty-- the resolution of our imagery at that array makes it more difficult to figure out these small stones. We do possess actually excellent image resolution during that path, and also the landscapes isn't extremely scary, so the Wanderer Planners are actually mosting likely to try to produce it in one ride. During the drive, we will certainly be actually taking a MARDI "walkway" film (a series of graphics looking below the vagabond for the entire size of the disk), which will certainly aid record the network. On the second sol of the plan, our experts perform some added climatic and untargeted science. Our experts have a Navcam suprahorizon film (checking out the scar rim to review dust in the environment) and a dirt devil flick. We likewise possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the rover will autonomously choose a target to graphic. Overnight, CheMin does an "vacant tissue" review to verify that the system is cleared out and all set for the following sampling campaign.