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Sols 4314-4315: Hang around, What Was That Back There?

.After concluding the targeted as well as call scientific research, our team're ready to steer. As the scientific research group had time to look a bit much more at the information picked up in that region, they uncovered this target that was worth going back for. We are steering back to the area of the white stones to perform additional contact science on rocks that appear comparable to the elemental sulfur we found previously this year. Preparation ahead, I came to look this drive on Friday, setting out the most safe pathway and seeking car park areas that were actually each suitable for interactions and also for doing contact scientific research. The intended "Lambs Spring" is about 50 meters (about 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a challenge-- the resolution of our imagery at that variety makes it more challenging to spot these tiny stones. Our experts perform possess definitely great imaging in that path, as well as the terrain isn't incredibly frightening, so the Wanderer Planners are actually heading to try to create it in one drive. In the course of the disk, our experts are going to be taking a MARDI "sidewalk" film (a collection of images looking listed below the rover for the entire span of the disk), which are going to help chronicle the stations. On the 2nd sol of the plan, our experts carry out some additional climatic and also untargeted scientific research. We possess a Navcam suprahorizon film (examining the hole edge to evaluate dust in the atmosphere) and also a dirt devil motion picture. Our team likewise possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the wanderer will autonomously decide on an aim at to picture. Overnight, CheMin performs an "empty tissue" evaluation to verify that the unit is actually cleared out as well as ready for the upcoming sampling campaign.