Space

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

.After wrapping up the targeted and contact science, our team prepare to drive. As the scientific research group had time to look a bit more at the data picked up in that location, they uncovered this aim at that cost going back for. Our team are actually steering back to the location of the white stones to do additional contact scientific research on stones that appear similar to the elemental sulfur our team observed previously this year. Planning ahead of time, I got to look this travel on Friday, mapping out the best road and seeking vehicle parking areas that were both great for communications along with for performing get in touch with science. The intended "Sheep Spring" has to do with 50 gauges (regarding 164 feet) to the northeast, which makes the ride a problem-- the resolution of our imagery at that selection makes it more difficult to determine these small rocks. Our team do have actually excellent imaging in that instructions, and the terrain isn't super frightening, so the Rover Planners are actually going to attempt to produce it in one drive. During the drive, we will be actually taking a MARDI "sidewalk" motion picture (a set of graphics appearing below the wanderer for the whole entire span of the drive), which will aid chronicle the channel. On the second sol of the strategy, we do some added atmospheric and also untargeted scientific research. Our company have a Navcam suprahorizon film (examining the crater rim to evaluate dirt in the ambience) and also a dirt devil movie. Our company additionally have a ChemCam AEGIS review, where the wanderer is going to autonomously select a target to graphic. Overnight, CheMin carries out an "unfilled cell" analysis to confirm that the body is actually cleaned and also all set for the following testing project.