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

.After completing the targeted and contact scientific research, our experts're ready to steer. As the scientific research crew possessed opportunity to appear a little bit extra at the data collected during that location, they discovered this aim at that cost going back for. Our experts are actually steering back to the location of the white stones to carry out even more get in touch with scientific research on rocks that appear similar to the important sulfur we saw earlier this year. Preparation ahead of time, I got to scout this drive on Friday, mapping out the most safe road as well as looking for auto parking spots that were each good for interactions in addition to for doing connect with scientific research. The target "Lamb Creek" concerns 50 gauges (concerning 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the drive a challenge-- the settlement of our photos at that range produces it more difficult to figure out these tiny rocks. Our company perform have actually excellent image resolution in that path, as well as the landscapes isn't super terrifying, so the Vagabond Planners are going to make an effort to create it in one drive. During the course of the disk, our company will definitely be taking a MARDI "sidewalk" flick (a collection of graphics looking listed below the wanderer for the whole span of the drive), which will certainly aid chronicle the network. On the 2nd sol of the plan, our company perform some added atmospheric as well as untargeted scientific research. Our experts possess a Navcam suprahorizon movie (looking at the scar rim to review dust in the setting) and a dirt devil movie. Our team also possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the wanderer is going to autonomously decide on a target to graphic. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "empty tissue" evaluation to verify that the device is actually cleaned and also ready for the following testing campaign.