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Day 8
On Mars a storm of an all-planet scale began. This is such a power that it’s even hard to describe. You should to see it with your own eyes. Or better not to see at all. The sky was covered with red-gray clouds and twilight fell to the ground. The ship seemed to have sunk in the tones of red sand. For a moment it even seemed to me that the ship was completely covered with the sand and we were not getting out into the light of day.
But we were lucky. The storm passed closely near our place and after lunch the wind died down a little. We sat in the rovers and decided to ride in the vicinity of the ship. No one, for sure, knew how events would develop. It’s better not to joke with the Martian weather. We rode carefully in rovers and looked around. What can I tell you. It's hostile, wild planet. And we, too, were strangers there. Now, if something happened, no one would even know what happened to us and where to look for us. And who would look for us? Probably, my mood was conveyed to everyone, because Steven turned on the music and in the rover all immediately somehow got amused. We even started to sing along. “What is it? What? ” Mary suddenly screamed, pointing somewhere with her finger. “What? Where? What did you see?” we also screamed out in disagreement. “I don’t know, something ran through,” Mary exclaimed excitedly. “It turned out,” Steven objected. “No, I definitely saw something,” Mary insisted on her, “If we were at home I would have thought it was a hare or a ferret.” Steven snorted. “You yourself a hare.” “He’s running,” Paul shouted. We saw a dark ball that slipped into a dark shadow and disappeared among the stones. “Steven turn off,” Jason said, “let's see what it is.” The rover turned off the planned path and we stopped next to the stones, among which we saw a dark ball. “Weapons. Take the weapon. You never know what it is,” Jason with a gun opened the door of the rover. Armed, we went after him. Between the stones we found the round holes in the soil. It was very much like burrows. But burrows, or simply holes in the soil, were hard to say. “Maybe throw a smoke bomb?” Paul suggested. Everyone liked the idea, but Alex intervened. “We don’t know what it is. I propose to install a surveillance camera and return to the ship. If something appears the camera fixed it.” We did so. Alex and Jason installed the camera and we all returned back to the ship. Everyone was eager to find out what or maybe even who gets into the camera's lens.
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