Space

Sols 4255-4256: Just Going through

.Finding our own selves lower than a meter from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a very familiar plan: Starting along with an arm basis for taking out dust as well as using APXS to investigate a base aim at named "Russell Elapsed," placing the upper arm out of the way for imaging, investing merely over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also ultimately a drive in the mid-day. These plans, dubbed "touch-and-go" plans, are actually typically occupied at the start as well as slow down by the end. Our travel this moment is actually prepared to go ~ 10 meters just about wonderfully eastern and leaving our heading almost perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are steadily on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to position our drill, our team could be staying for yet another pair of weeks while our experts attempt and pick up yet another Gediz Vallis channel example. As well as since our experts drive in reverse along with the branch occupying the rear, our experts may also possess a work space our team have actually currently steered over - perhaps subjecting some internal bedrock also prior to drilling.