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Sols 4314-4315: Hang around, What Was That Back There?

.After completing the targeted and also contact science, our company're ready to steer. As the science team had opportunity to appear a bit more at the records gathered because area, they discovered this aim at that cost going back for. Our company are driving back to the area of the white colored rocks to carry out even more get in touch with science on rocks that look comparable to the essential sulfur our company observed previously this year. Preparing in advance, I reached scout this drive on Friday, laying out the safest path and also looking for car parking spots that were each helpful for communications in addition to for performing call science. The aim at "Sheep Spring" is about 50 gauges (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the ride a problem-- the resolution of our visuals at that assortment makes it tougher to pinpoint these tiny rocks. Our company carry out possess actually great imaging in that path, and also the terrain isn't extremely distressing, so the Wanderer Planners are actually heading to make an effort to make it in one ride. During the course of the drive, our team will certainly be actually taking a MARDI "pavement" movie (a set of graphics looking below the wanderer for the whole duration of the drive), which are going to assist document the network. On the second sol of the plan, our experts do some extra climatic as well as untargeted science. Our team possess a Navcam suprahorizon movie (considering the scar edge to evaluate dirt in the atmosphere) and also a dust evil one film. Our team also have a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the rover is going to autonomously choose an aim at to image. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "empty cell" study to validate that the system is actually cleaned out as well as all set for the next tasting project.