Space

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

.After wrapping up the targeted and contact scientific research, our team prepare to steer. As the scientific research group had time to look a little a lot more at the records collected during that region, they uncovered this aim at that deserved returning for. We are actually driving back to the region of the white stones to carry out additional connect with science on rocks that look comparable to the important sulfur our company viewed earlier this year. Preparation in advance, I reached scout this travel on Friday, mapping out the ideal path and trying to find car parking places that were both great for interactions in addition to for performing contact science. The target "Sheep Spring" has to do with 50 meters (concerning 164 feets) to the northeast, which makes the ride a problem-- the settlement of our imagery at that array makes it more difficult to figure out these small rocks. Our company do possess actually good imaging during that direction, as well as the surface isn't tremendously scary, so the Wanderer Planners are actually heading to make an effort to produce it in one travel. In the course of the drive, our team are going to be actually taking a MARDI "walkway" film (a collection of images looking listed below the wanderer for the whole entire duration of the disk), which will certainly aid chronicle the network. On the second sol of the strategy, our company do some added atmospherical and untargeted science. Our team possess a Navcam suprahorizon flick (examining the crater rim to examine dirt in the environment) as well as a dirt adversary flick. We also have a ChemCam AEGIS observation, where the rover is going to autonomously pick an aim at to graphic. Overnight, CheMin does an "vacant tissue" evaluation to confirm that the system is cleaned as well as prepared for the next testing initiative.