Space

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

.After completing the targeted and connect with scientific research, our team're ready to steer. As the scientific research crew had time to look a bit much more at the information picked up during that location, they discovered this target that was worth returning for. Our company are steering back to the area of the white rocks to perform additional get in touch with scientific research on stones that appear similar to the essential sulfur our team observed previously this year. Planning ahead of time, I came to look this ride on Friday, laying out the safest pathway as well as trying to find vehicle parking locations that were actually both great for interactions and also for doing get in touch with scientific research. The intended "Lambs Spring" is about 50 gauges (about 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the drive a problem-- the resolution of our visuals at that variation produces it harder to identify these little rocks. Our company perform have actually excellent image resolution because direction, as well as the terrain isn't tremendously distressing, so the Rover Planners are actually visiting attempt to make it in one travel. Throughout the disk, our team will definitely be actually taking a MARDI "walkway" movie (a collection of images appearing listed below the rover for the entire length of the drive), which are going to help chronicle the stations. On the 2nd sol of the program, our team do some extra climatic and also untargeted scientific research. Our company possess a Navcam suprahorizon movie (looking at the hole rim to analyze dirt in the environment) as well as a dirt adversary film. We also have a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the rover is going to autonomously decide on an intended to image. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "empty tissue" review to confirm that the device is actually cleaned out as well as all set for the upcoming sampling campaign.