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

.After concluding the targeted and connect with science, our company prepare to drive. As the scientific research crew had time to appear a little extra at the information accumulated in that region, they uncovered this intended that deserved returning for. We are driving back to the location of the white colored stones to perform more contact scientific research on rocks that appear identical to the important sulfur our company observed previously this year. Planning ahead, I got to scout this ride on Friday, laying out the safest road and searching for auto parking locations that were actually each helpful for interactions along with for performing contact science. The aim at "Lamb Spring" is about 50 gauges (about 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a difficulty-- the resolution of our images at that array creates it more challenging to pinpoint these small stones. We do have actually great imaging in that direction, and also the terrain isn't tremendously scary, so the Wanderer Planners are heading to make an effort to make it in one travel. During the course of the drive, our team will definitely be taking a MARDI "walkway" film (a set of graphics looking below the rover for the whole entire length of the disk), which are going to aid document the network. On the 2nd sol of the plan, our team do some extra atmospheric and also untargeted scientific research. Our company have a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (looking at the crater edge to examine dust in the ambience) and also a dust devil flick. Our company likewise have a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the wanderer will autonomously select an aim at to graphic. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "vacant cell" analysis to verify that the body is cleaned out and also ready for the next tasting campaign.