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

.After completing the targeted and also connect with science, our experts're ready to drive. As the science crew had time to appear a bit even more at the data accumulated during that area, they found this intended that was worth getting back for. Our company are actually driving back to the area of the white colored rocks to perform more connect with science on rocks that look similar to the important sulfur our experts saw earlier this year. Preparing ahead of time, I got to search this ride on Friday, outlining the ideal road as well as searching for car park locations that were each helpful for interactions and also for performing connect with scientific research. The target "Sheep Creek" is about fifty meters (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a challenge-- the settlement of our images at that assortment creates it more challenging to figure out these small rocks. Our company do have definitely good imaging in that direction, and the surface isn't tremendously distressing, so the Wanderer Planners are mosting likely to try to make it in one ride. In the course of the disk, our company are going to be taking a MARDI "walkway" flick (a set of images looking below the rover for the whole entire duration of the disk), which will certainly aid document the network. On the second sol of the program, our company do some added atmospheric as well as untargeted scientific research. We possess a Navcam suprahorizon flick (examining the sinkhole rim to analyze dirt in the atmosphere) and also a dirt adversary motion picture. Our experts additionally possess a ChemCam AEGIS review, where the vagabond is going to autonomously pick an intended to image. Overnight, CheMin performs an "empty tissue" analysis to validate that the unit is actually cleaned out and also prepared for the following tasting campaign.