.Finding ourselves lower than a meter from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a quite acquainted plan: Starting with an arm basis for clearing away dirt and also utilizing APXS to investigate a base intended called "Russell Pass," putting the arm out of the way for imaging, investing merely over a hr on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also ultimately a ride in the afternoon. These strategies, nicknamed "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually commonly busy at the start as well as slow down in the end. Our travel this time is prepared to go ~ 10 gauges practically perfectly eastern and leaving our heading nearly wonderfully west. If on Friday, our wheels are sturdily on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface to position our exercise, our experts might be remaining for another pair of weeks while our team try and also pick up yet another Gediz Vallis channel example. And because our experts steer back with the arm occupying the rear, our company may even have a work area our team have actually already steered over - hopefully leaving open some inner bedrock even before exploration.