.Locating ourselves lower than a gauge coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our experts began on a really knowledgeable strategy: Beginning with an arm backbone for taking out dust and also making use of APXS to look into a base intended called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, spending just over a hr on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a ride in the afternoon. These programs, referred to "touch-and-go" programs, are actually normally occupied at the beginning and also decrease by the end. Our drive this time around is actually organized to go ~ 10 meters just about flawlessly east and leaving our moving nearly completely west. If on Friday, our tires are actually well on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough base area to position our practice, we may be staying put for another pair of full weeks while our company attempt as well as collect yet another Gediz Vallis stations example. As well as since we drive in reverse with the arm taking up the rear, we might also have a work area our company have actually actually steered over - with any luck revealing some interior base also before drilling.