.Locating our own selves less than a meter from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our experts began on an extremely knowledgeable strategy: Starting with an arm basis for clearing away dirt and making use of APXS to examine a bedrock target called "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the upper arm off the beaten track for image resolution, spending only over a hr on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also finally a ride in the afternoon. These plannings, termed "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually typically hectic at the beginning and also slow down at the end. Our travel this time is actually prepared to go ~ 10 gauges nearly completely east and leaving our heading practically perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are steadily on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to position our drill, our experts may be staying put for another pair of full weeks while our experts attempt and pick up yet another Gediz Vallis channel sample. And also because our team drive in reverse with the branch using up the back, our experts may even have a workspace our company have actually actually driven over - perhaps exposing some inner bedrock also prior to drilling.