Space

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

.After completing the targeted and also contact scientific research, our company prepare to drive. As the science staff had opportunity to appear a little bit extra at the information collected because region, they discovered this aim at that deserved returning for. We are actually steering back to the region of the white stones to do more get in touch with science on rocks that look comparable to the elemental sulfur our company viewed earlier this year. Planning ahead of time, I got to hunt this drive on Friday, outlining the safest pathway and also trying to find parking areas that were actually both suitable for interactions and also for doing contact scientific research. The intended "Lamb Spring" concerns 50 gauges (about 164 feet) to the northeast, that makes the drive a challenge-- the resolution of our imagery at that assortment produces it more challenging to spot these tiny stones. Our company do possess truly great image resolution because direction, and also the landscapes isn't super scary, so the Vagabond Planners are actually going to try to create it in one travel. During the drive, we will be actually taking a MARDI "pathway" film (a series of graphics appearing listed below the rover for the whole entire span of the drive), which will certainly aid record the stations. On the 2nd sol of the planning, our company do some extra atmospherical and untargeted science. Our experts have a Navcam suprahorizon movie (considering the sinkhole rim to assess dirt in the atmosphere) and a dust adversary flick. Our experts additionally possess a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the wanderer will autonomously pick a target to graphic. Overnight, CheMin does an "vacant cell" analysis to verify that the unit is actually cleared out and all set for the next testing project.