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

.After wrapping up the targeted and also get in touch with science, our company prepare to steer. As the science team possessed opportunity to appear a little bit even more at the records picked up during that location, they uncovered this target that was worth returning for. Our company are driving back to the place of the white colored rocks to carry out even more contact science on stones that appear identical to the elemental sulfur our experts observed previously this year. Preparation in advance, I reached look this drive on Friday, outlining the ideal road and also looking for car parking locations that were actually each suitable for communications in addition to for performing connect with science. The target "Lambs Creek" is about 50 gauges (about 164 feets) to the northeast, which makes the ride an obstacle-- the settlement of our visuals at that variation makes it more difficult to identify these small rocks. We do possess actually great imaging in that path, and the surface isn't very frightening, so the Rover Planners are actually heading to attempt to create it in one ride. During the drive, our team will be actually taking a MARDI "sidewalk" flick (a series of images appearing below the vagabond for the entire duration of the disk), which will assist chronicle the channel. On the 2nd sol of the program, our experts carry out some extra atmospherical and untargeted scientific research. We have a Navcam suprahorizon movie (considering the hole rim to examine dirt in the ambience) as well as a dirt adversary movie. Our experts also possess a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the vagabond is going to autonomously decide on a target to image. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "unfilled tissue" study to verify that the device is cleared out and also ready for the next testing project.