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

.After finishing up the targeted and also contact scientific research, our team prepare to drive. As the science group possessed opportunity to appear a little bit extra at the information picked up in that area, they discovered this aim at that deserved returning for. We are actually driving back to the place of the white rocks to do additional call scientific research on rocks that appear comparable to the elemental sulfur we found earlier this year. Organizing in advance, I reached scout this ride on Friday, setting out the safest course and searching for car park spots that were both suitable for communications and also for performing contact science. The aim at "Lambs Creek" concerns 50 gauges (concerning 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the drive a challenge-- the settlement of our visuals at that range makes it tougher to determine these tiny rocks. We carry out have definitely good image resolution because direction, and the terrain isn't extremely frightening, so the Vagabond Planners are actually mosting likely to attempt to produce it in one drive. In the course of the drive, our team will certainly be taking a MARDI "walkway" flick (a series of graphics appearing listed below the wanderer for the whole entire span of the disk), which are going to assist document the channel. On the second sol of the planning, our experts carry out some extra climatic and also untargeted scientific research. Our team have a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (taking a look at the sinkhole rim to examine dirt in the environment) and also a dirt devil film. Our company additionally possess a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the wanderer will autonomously select an intended to picture. Overnight, CheMin does an "unfilled tissue" analysis to confirm that the system is actually cleared out as well as prepared for the next tasting campaign.