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

.After concluding the targeted as well as get in touch with science, we're ready to drive. As the scientific research group possessed opportunity to look a little bit a lot more at the information picked up because region, they found this target that was worth going back for. We are driving back to the region of the white rocks to carry out more contact scientific research on stones that look similar to the essential sulfur our experts viewed previously this year. Planning ahead, I got to hunt this travel on Friday, outlining the safest course and trying to find vehicle parking areas that were actually both great for communications and also for carrying out call scientific research. The target "Lambs Creek" concerns fifty meters (concerning 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the drive an obstacle-- the settlement of our visuals at that variety produces it more challenging to figure out these little stones. Our experts perform have definitely excellent imaging because path, and the terrain isn't tremendously scary, so the Vagabond Planners are actually going to attempt to produce it in one travel. During the drive, our team will certainly be actually taking a MARDI "walkway" flick (a collection of pictures looking below the rover for the whole entire size of the drive), which will definitely aid document the network. On the 2nd sol of the strategy, our team do some additional climatic and also untargeted scientific research. Our experts have a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (taking a look at the hole edge to examine dust in the setting) and a dirt adversary motion picture. Our experts additionally have a ChemCam AEGIS review, where the rover is going to autonomously select a target to graphic. Overnight, CheMin performs an "unfilled tissue" review to affirm that the system is cleaned and also all set for the following tasting initiative.