.Finding ourselves less than a gauge from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, we began on a very knowledgeable program: Starting with an upper arm backbone for clearing away dust and using APXS to investigate a bedrock intended named "Russell Elapsed," putting the arm out of the way for imaging, investing just over an hour on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, as well as eventually a ride in the afternoon. These programs, referred to as "touch-and-go" programs, are commonly active at the start as well as decrease at the end. Our travel this time is considered to go ~ 10 gauges practically wonderfully east and also leaving our heading virtually flawlessly west. If on Friday, our wheels are sturdily on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough base area to place our exercise, we may be sitting tight for yet another 2 weeks while our company try as well as pick up yet another Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also because our team drive in reverse with the branch occupying the rear end, our experts may also have a workspace our experts have actually currently driven over - ideally revealing some internal base also prior to exploration.