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

.After finishing up the targeted as well as call scientific research, our company're ready to steer. As the scientific research team possessed time to look a bit even more at the data collected during that region, they uncovered this aim at that was worth getting back for. Our team are actually steering back to the location of the white stones to accomplish additional connect with scientific research on stones that appear comparable to the essential sulfur our team found earlier this year. Planning ahead of time, I got to search this travel on Friday, setting out the safest path and trying to find car parking spots that were actually both suitable for interactions in addition to for carrying out get in touch with science. The target "Lambs Creek" concerns fifty gauges (concerning 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the drive a difficulty-- the resolution of our images at that array creates it more challenging to figure out these small rocks. Our team perform possess truly great imaging because path, as well as the landscapes isn't extremely scary, so the Vagabond Planners are actually mosting likely to make an effort to make it in one drive. During the course of the drive, our company will be actually taking a MARDI "walkway" flick (a set of photos appearing listed below the vagabond for the whole entire span of the disk), which will aid record the channel. On the second sol of the program, our team do some extra atmospheric and also untargeted science. Our experts possess a Navcam suprahorizon film (examining the sinkhole rim to evaluate dirt in the setting) and a dirt adversary movie. We also have a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the wanderer is going to autonomously pick an intended to image. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "unfilled cell" review to affirm that the body is cleared out and prepared for the following testing initiative.