Space

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

.After finishing up the targeted and connect with scientific research, we're ready to drive. As the science team had time to look a little bit even more at the data gathered in that region, they uncovered this aim at that deserved getting back for. We are actually driving back to the place of the white stones to accomplish additional call science on stones that appear identical to the important sulfur our experts found earlier this year. Planning ahead, I reached hunt this ride on Friday, mapping out the most safe course and searching for vehicle parking areas that were each good for communications in addition to for carrying out call scientific research. The target "Lamb Creek" has to do with fifty meters (concerning 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the travel a challenge-- the settlement of our imagery at that array creates it harder to spot these small rocks. Our company do have definitely good image resolution in that direction, and the terrain isn't incredibly frightening, so the Wanderer Planners are actually heading to try to make it in one ride. In the course of the drive, we will definitely be taking a MARDI "pavement" movie (a series of photos appearing below the wanderer for the whole entire duration of the disk), which will assist document the stations. On the second sol of the program, we do some extra climatic as well as untargeted science. We have a Navcam suprahorizon film (examining the crater edge to examine dirt in the environment) and also a dust evil one movie. Our experts also possess a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the vagabond is going to autonomously choose an aim at to image. Overnight, CheMin performs an "empty tissue" analysis to validate that the unit is cleaned out and all set for the next sampling project.