.Discovering ourselves less than a gauge coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a really familiar planning: Beginning along with an upper arm basis for getting rid of dust and making use of APXS to check out a base target named "Russell Pass," positioning the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, devoting just over an hour on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, as well as ultimately a ride in the mid-day. These plans, dubbed "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually generally hectic at the start and also slow at the end. Our ride this time is actually prepared to go ~ 10 gauges virtually wonderfully east as well as leaving our moving almost perfectly west. If on Friday, our tires are steadily on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to position our exercise, our company may be remaining for yet another two full weeks while our company try and accumulate one more Gediz Vallis stations example. And also because our team drive in reverse along with the arm occupying the rear end, our experts might also have a work space our team have actually already driven over - hopefully leaving open some interior bedrock even prior to drilling.