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

.After finishing up the targeted as well as get in touch with science, our company're ready to drive. As the science crew possessed opportunity to appear a little bit extra at the data picked up because area, they uncovered this target that deserved getting back for. Our team are steering back to the location of the white rocks to perform additional get in touch with science on rocks that appear similar to the essential sulfur our company saw previously this year. Organizing ahead, I came to look this travel on Friday, laying out the ideal path and also searching for vehicle parking areas that were actually each helpful for communications in addition to for carrying out connect with science. The target "Sheep Spring" concerns fifty meters (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the ride an obstacle-- the settlement of our imagery at that array produces it tougher to determine these tiny rocks. Our company carry out possess really excellent image resolution in that direction, and also the terrain isn't very terrifying, so the Rover Planners are actually visiting attempt to create it in one drive. In the course of the disk, our team will definitely be taking a MARDI "pathway" movie (a collection of pictures appearing below the wanderer for the whole span of the drive), which will certainly aid document the channel. On the 2nd sol of the strategy, our company do some extra atmospheric and also untargeted scientific research. Our experts have a Navcam suprahorizon flick (taking a look at the hole edge to assess dust in the environment) as well as a dust devil movie. Our experts also possess a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the wanderer is going to autonomously choose an aim at to graphic. Overnight, CheMin performs an "unfilled cell" analysis to verify that the body is actually cleared out as well as ready for the following tasting campaign.