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

.After concluding the targeted and also contact scientific research, we prepare to steer. As the scientific research team had opportunity to look a little bit even more at the data collected in that location, they uncovered this target that cost getting back for. Our experts are actually steering back to the place of the white stones to accomplish more contact scientific research on rocks that look similar to the important sulfur our experts viewed previously this year. Preparing in advance, I came to scout this ride on Friday, mapping out the best course and looking for auto parking places that were actually both suitable for communications in addition to for carrying out get in touch with science. The target "Lambs Creek" has to do with fifty gauges (concerning 164 feets) to the northeast, that makes the ride a challenge-- the resolution of our images at that variation produces it more difficult to figure out these little stones. Our team do possess really good image resolution in that path, as well as the terrain isn't extremely terrifying, so the Vagabond Planners are visiting attempt to create it in one travel. During the drive, our experts are going to be actually taking a MARDI "sidewalk" movie (a set of images appearing below the rover for the entire length of the disk), which will definitely assist document the channel. On the second sol of the planning, our team do some extra atmospherical and also untargeted scientific research. Our company have a Navcam suprahorizon flick (considering the scar edge to evaluate dust in the setting) and a dust devil motion picture. Our experts also have a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the vagabond will autonomously decide on a target to photo. Overnight, CheMin performs an "empty cell" analysis to affirm that the device is cleaned and also all set for the next testing campaign.