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

.After finishing up the targeted and call science, our company're ready to drive. As the scientific research group had time to appear a little bit extra at the information gathered during that region, they discovered this intended that cost going back for. Our company are actually steering back to the place of the white colored stones to accomplish additional contact science on rocks that appear comparable to the essential sulfur our experts viewed earlier this year. Preparing ahead of time, I got to scout this drive on Friday, setting out the most safe course and searching for car parking places that were actually each great for communications as well as for carrying out get in touch with science. The intended "Sheep Spring" concerns 50 gauges (regarding 164 feets) to the northeast, that makes the travel a problem-- the resolution of our imagery at that assortment makes it more challenging to determine these little rocks. We carry out possess truly great imaging during that path, and the surface isn't very scary, so the Rover Planners are heading to try to make it in one travel. During the drive, our team will definitely be actually taking a MARDI "pathway" movie (a series of photos looking listed below the rover for the entire span of the drive), which will certainly aid document the stations. On the 2nd sol of the planning, our team do some extra atmospheric and also untargeted science. Our team have a Navcam suprahorizon movie (taking a look at the sinkhole rim to examine dust in the setting) and also a dust evil one movie. Our company additionally have a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the wanderer is going to autonomously select an aim at to photo. Overnight, CheMin performs an "unfilled cell" analysis to confirm that the unit is cleaned and also prepared for the upcoming sampling project.