.Finding our own selves less than a meter coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on an extremely knowledgeable strategy: Beginning along with an arm basis for clearing away dirt and also making use of APXS to examine a base aim at called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm out of the way for imaging, spending merely over a hr on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also eventually a travel in the afternoon. These plans, referred to as "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually generally occupied at the start as well as reduce in the end. Our travel this moment is actually intended to go ~ 10 gauges almost perfectly east and leaving our heading practically completely west. If on Friday, our tires are solidly on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock area to place our practice, our company might be sitting tight for yet another pair of full weeks while our experts attempt and also accumulate another Gediz Vallis stations example. And also due to the fact that our experts steer backwards along with the branch using up the back, our experts could also possess a work space our team have actually currently steered over - with any luck exposing some inner base even before drilling.