.Finding our own selves lower than a meter from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a really knowledgeable program: Starting along with an upper arm basis for taking out dirt and also utilizing APXS to explore a base intended called "Russell Pass," positioning the arm out of the way for imaging, devoting simply over a hr on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another upper arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and ultimately a travel in the mid-day. These plans, dubbed "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually normally busy at the start as well as decrease by the end. Our drive this moment is actually considered to go ~ 10 meters almost perfectly eastern and also leaving our moving nearly wonderfully west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are solidly on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough base surface to put our exercise, our experts could be sitting tight for an additional 2 full weeks while our experts attempt and also accumulate yet another Gediz Vallis channel sample. As well as due to the fact that our team steer backwards along with the branch taking up the back, our company might even possess an office our team've already driven over - hopefully exposing some inner bedrock also just before exploration.