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

.After finishing up the targeted and also connect with scientific research, we're ready to drive. As the scientific research group had opportunity to look a bit more at the information accumulated in that location, they found this target that deserved returning for. Our team are actually driving back to the area of the white colored stones to perform even more contact scientific research on rocks that appear similar to the elemental sulfur our team observed previously this year. Preparation ahead, I reached scout this travel on Friday, outlining the safest road and also searching for auto parking spots that were actually both helpful for communications as well as for doing contact science. The aim at "Lamb Spring" concerns fifty gauges (concerning 164 feets) to the northeast, that makes the ride a challenge-- the settlement of our images at that assortment produces it tougher to spot these small rocks. Our company perform have actually great image resolution during that direction, and also the surface isn't extremely distressing, so the Vagabond Planners are going to try to create it in one drive. During the disk, our experts will certainly be taking a MARDI "pathway" flick (a series of pictures appearing listed below the rover for the whole duration of the disk), which will definitely help record the channel. On the 2nd sol of the planning, we perform some additional atmospherical and also untargeted scientific research. Our team have a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (examining the sinkhole rim to assess dust in the setting) and a dust devil film. Our team also possess a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the rover will autonomously pick an aim at to image. Overnight, CheMin performs an "unfilled cell" review to affirm that the device is actually cleaned and prepared for the next tasting project.