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

.After completing the targeted and also connect with scientific research, we're ready to drive. As the science group had opportunity to look a little bit even more at the data picked up because area, they found this aim at that deserved going back for. Our team are driving back to the area of the white stones to accomplish more get in touch with scientific research on stones that look similar to the elemental sulfur our experts found earlier this year. Organizing ahead, I got to scout this drive on Friday, setting out the best course as well as searching for vehicle parking areas that were actually both good for communications in addition to for doing get in touch with science. The intended "Lamb Spring" is about fifty gauges (about 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the ride an obstacle-- the resolution of our images at that range creates it harder to spot these tiny stones. Our experts perform possess actually excellent imaging because direction, and the terrain isn't extremely frightening, so the Vagabond Planners are actually mosting likely to try to make it in one drive. During the course of the disk, we will be actually taking a MARDI "sidewalk" motion picture (a collection of images appearing below the vagabond for the whole entire length of the drive), which will assist record the stations. On the 2nd sol of the program, our company do some additional atmospherical and also untargeted science. Our company possess a Navcam suprahorizon flick (examining the hole edge to review dirt in the environment) as well as a dust devil movie. Our experts additionally possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the vagabond will autonomously decide on a target to photo. Overnight, CheMin does an "empty cell" analysis to verify that the body is actually cleared out and also ready for the upcoming tasting project.