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

.After finishing up the targeted and get in touch with science, our experts're ready to drive. As the scientific research team possessed opportunity to look a little bit a lot more at the records collected because area, they uncovered this target that deserved returning for. We are steering back to the place of the white colored rocks to accomplish even more get in touch with science on stones that look comparable to the essential sulfur our company viewed previously this year. Planning ahead, I reached hunt this travel on Friday, outlining the most safe path and searching for car parking locations that were each helpful for communications as well as for doing contact science. The intended "Sheep Creek" concerns 50 meters (about 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a difficulty-- the resolution of our visuals at that variety creates it more challenging to determine these little rocks. We carry out have really good imaging in that path, and the landscapes isn't tremendously frightening, so the Rover Planners are actually going to make an effort to create it in one travel. Throughout the disk, we will be taking a MARDI "sidewalk" movie (a set of graphics appearing listed below the wanderer for the whole entire size of the drive), which will definitely aid chronicle the channel. On the 2nd sol of the program, our experts do some additional climatic and also untargeted scientific research. We possess a Navcam suprahorizon film (checking out the scar edge to assess dirt in the environment) and also a dirt adversary flick. Our experts also possess a ChemCam AEGIS review, where the wanderer will autonomously decide on a target to graphic. Overnight, CheMin does an "vacant tissue" evaluation to validate that the system is cleared out and also ready for the upcoming sampling initiative.