.Locating ourselves lower than a meter from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on an extremely knowledgeable strategy: Starting with an arm backbone for eliminating dust and utilizing APXS to check out a bedrock intended called "Russell Pass," putting the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, devoting only over an hour on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as finally a drive in the afternoon. These plans, nicknamed "touch-and-go" plans, are normally hectic at the beginning and slow at the end. Our travel this time is organized to go ~ 10 gauges practically perfectly east and also leaving our heading practically completely west. If on Friday, our tires are solidly on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough base surface area to position our drill, our team might be remaining for another pair of full weeks while our team attempt and collect one more Gediz Vallis channel example. And also since our experts drive back along with the branch occupying the rear end, our team may also have an office our experts've actually driven over - ideally exposing some inner bedrock also before drilling.