Space

Sols 4255-4256: Simply Going through

.Finding our own selves less than a gauge from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, we began on a very acquainted strategy: Starting with an arm backbone for taking out dirt and making use of APXS to explore a base intended named "Russell Successfully pass," putting the upper arm off the beaten track for imaging, devoting simply over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also ultimately a drive in the mid-day. These programs, termed "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually often active at the beginning as well as reduce in the end. Our drive this time is actually planned to go ~ 10 meters virtually wonderfully east and also leaving our heading virtually flawlessly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base surface area to place our practice, we might be remaining for another 2 weeks while our experts attempt and also accumulate yet another Gediz Vallis network sample. And also since our experts drive in reverse along with the branch taking up the back, our team may also have a work environment we've already steered over - perhaps subjecting some inner base also prior to exploration.