Space

Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Locating ourselves less than a gauge from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a quite acquainted strategy: Starting along with an upper arm backbone for getting rid of dirt as well as using APXS to explore a bedrock aim at named "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm out of the way for image resolution, devoting merely over a hr on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as ultimately a drive in the mid-day. These programs, called "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually normally active at the beginning and decrease at the end. Our drive this moment is actually planned to go ~ 10 gauges almost flawlessly eastern and also leaving our moving almost wonderfully west. If on Friday, our wheels are well on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough base area to position our practice, our team might be sitting tight for yet another pair of weeks while our experts attempt as well as pick up one more Gediz Vallis network sample. And because our experts drive back along with the branch taking up the back, we may even possess a work space our company've already steered over - hopefully revealing some internal base even just before exploration.