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

.After concluding the targeted as well as get in touch with scientific research, our experts prepare to drive. As the scientific research group had time to appear a bit extra at the information accumulated in that location, they found this aim at that deserved returning for. Our team are actually steering back to the location of the white colored rocks to do more connect with scientific research on stones that appear similar to the important sulfur we saw earlier this year. Preparing ahead of time, I got to look this ride on Friday, laying out the best course and looking for car parking locations that were actually both great for interactions in addition to for carrying out get in touch with scientific research. The intended "Lambs Spring" is about 50 meters (about 164 feets) to the northeast, which makes the drive a difficulty-- the resolution of our photos at that variety creates it more challenging to identify these little stones. Our team carry out possess really great image resolution during that instructions, and the terrain isn't very terrifying, so the Wanderer Planners are mosting likely to make an effort to create it in one ride. In the course of the drive, our company will definitely be taking a MARDI "pavement" flick (a collection of photos looking below the vagabond for the whole size of the disk), which will aid record the stations. On the 2nd sol of the plan, we do some extra atmospherical as well as untargeted scientific research. Our team have a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (looking at the crater edge to review dust in the setting) as well as a dirt devil motion picture. Our company additionally possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the wanderer is going to autonomously select an intended to photo. Overnight, CheMin performs an "vacant tissue" study to validate that the system is cleaned out and prepared for the upcoming sampling campaign.