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

.After completing the targeted and connect with scientific research, our experts're ready to drive. As the science group had opportunity to look a little a lot more at the data accumulated because area, they discovered this intended that was worth returning for. We are steering back to the location of the white colored rocks to perform additional contact science on rocks that appear similar to the essential sulfur we saw previously this year. Preparing ahead of time, I got to hunt this travel on Friday, outlining the safest course as well as seeking vehicle parking areas that were actually both helpful for communications as well as for carrying out call scientific research. The target "Sheep Creek" has to do with 50 gauges (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the drive a difficulty-- the resolution of our imagery at that variation makes it more challenging to determine these little rocks. We perform possess really excellent image resolution in that direction, and also the surface isn't very frightful, so the Vagabond Planners are going to attempt to create it in one ride. Throughout the disk, our experts will be taking a MARDI "walkway" movie (a series of graphics appearing listed below the wanderer for the whole span of the drive), which will certainly help chronicle the channel. On the 2nd sol of the plan, our company carry out some additional atmospheric as well as untargeted science. We possess a Navcam suprahorizon flick (examining the scar rim to analyze dirt in the environment) and a dirt devil flick. Our company likewise have a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the rover is going to autonomously decide on a target to graphic. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "unfilled tissue" study to verify that the system is cleaned and prepared for the following sampling project.