.Discovering ourselves lower than a gauge coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a quite familiar strategy: Beginning along with an arm basis for clearing away dirt and also using APXS to look into a bedrock aim at called "Russell Successfully pass," placing the upper arm out of the way for image resolution, investing merely over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also lastly a travel in the afternoon. These strategies, referred to as "touch-and-go" plans, are typically active at the beginning as well as reduce in the end. Our travel this time is actually considered to go ~ 10 meters virtually completely eastern and leaving our heading virtually wonderfully west. If on Friday, our tires are sturdily on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock area to put our practice, our team could be remaining for an additional two weeks while our experts try and accumulate yet another Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also considering that our experts steer back along with the arm taking up the rear end, our experts might even have a work space our experts've already driven over - ideally leaving open some interior bedrock even prior to exploration.