Space

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

.After concluding the targeted as well as contact science, our company prepare to drive. As the science staff possessed opportunity to appear a little bit more at the data gathered in that location, they discovered this intended that deserved returning for. Our experts are driving back to the region of the white colored stones to do additional connect with science on stones that look identical to the elemental sulfur we viewed previously this year. Preparation in advance, I came to search this travel on Friday, outlining the safest pathway as well as trying to find car park locations that were actually each helpful for interactions and also for carrying out call scientific research. The intended "Sheep Spring" concerns fifty gauges (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the travel a problem-- the settlement of our photos at that range creates it harder to determine these tiny stones. We carry out possess definitely great imaging during that path, and also the terrain isn't super distressing, so the Rover Planners are visiting attempt to produce it in one travel. In the course of the drive, our company are going to be taking a MARDI "walkway" film (a series of photos appearing below the rover for the entire length of the disk), which are going to help record the network. On the 2nd sol of the program, our experts carry out some added climatic and untargeted scientific research. Our company possess a Navcam suprahorizon motion picture (checking out the crater rim to evaluate dust in the atmosphere) as well as a dirt devil movie. Our team also have a ChemCam AEGIS monitoring, where the rover will autonomously pick an intended to graphic. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "vacant tissue" review to validate that the unit is actually cleared out and also prepared for the next sampling campaign.