.Locating ourselves less than a meter from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on an extremely acquainted plan: Starting along with an arm foundation for eliminating dust and making use of APXS to check out a base intended called "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, devoting just over a hr on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then another upper arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also finally a travel in the mid-day. These strategies, referred to as "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually commonly busy at the beginning and also slow at the end. Our drive this time is actually considered to go ~ 10 meters virtually perfectly eastern and also leaving our moving virtually perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough bedrock surface to put our drill, our experts may be staying put for another two weeks while our company make an effort as well as gather yet another Gediz Vallis stations sample. And because we steer back along with the arm occupying the rear, our team could even have a work environment our team've actually driven over - ideally subjecting some inner bedrock even prior to boring.