.Discovering our own selves less than a meter from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on an extremely knowledgeable plan: Starting with an upper arm backbone for eliminating dust and also using APXS to check out a bedrock target named "Russell Pass," placing the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, investing simply over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also finally a ride in the mid-day. These plannings, nicknamed "touch-and-go" strategies, are typically busy at the start and also slow down in the end. Our travel this time is prepared to go ~ 10 meters almost flawlessly east and also leaving our heading just about wonderfully west. If on Friday, our wheels are steadily on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough base surface area to position our practice, our company could be remaining for yet another pair of weeks while our experts make an effort as well as gather one more Gediz Vallis stations sample. As well as because we steer in reverse with the arm occupying the rear, our experts may also have a work space we've already steered over - hopefully exposing some interior base even just before drilling.