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

.After wrapping up the targeted as well as contact scientific research, our team're ready to drive. As the science group possessed opportunity to appear a little bit extra at the records picked up during that area, they found this target that was worth returning for. We are actually steering back to the area of the white stones to carry out more connect with scientific research on stones that look identical to the important sulfur our team saw previously this year. Planning in advance, I came to look this travel on Friday, outlining the most safe path and also trying to find vehicle parking spots that were both suitable for interactions in addition to for doing contact science. The target "Sheep Creek" concerns fifty gauges (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a problem-- the resolution of our photos at that assortment makes it more difficult to spot these small rocks. Our experts do possess definitely great imaging during that instructions, and the surface isn't incredibly frightening, so the Rover Planners are actually visiting try to produce it in one travel. In the course of the disk, our company are going to be taking a MARDI "sidewalk" movie (a collection of images looking below the rover for the entire size of the disk), which are going to help chronicle the channel. On the 2nd sol of the program, our experts perform some added atmospheric and untargeted scientific research. We have a Navcam suprahorizon movie (examining the crater rim to assess dirt in the atmosphere) and also a dirt adversary film. Our experts additionally possess a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the rover is going to autonomously select an intended to image. Overnight, CheMin does an "empty cell" study to validate that the system is actually cleaned out and also ready for the upcoming testing project.

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