Space

Sols 4255-4256: Merely Travelling through

.Discovering our own selves lower than a meter from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a really familiar plan: Beginning with an upper arm backbone for removing dust and also utilizing APXS to explore a bedrock intended called "Russell Pass," placing the upper arm out of the way for image resolution, investing merely over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm foundation for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and also eventually a travel in the mid-day. These plannings, dubbed "touch-and-go" programs, are actually normally occupied at the start as well as slow down by the end. Our drive this moment is prepared to go ~ 10 gauges almost perfectly east and also leaving our heading practically flawlessly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually sturdily on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to position our practice, our team may be remaining for yet another 2 weeks while our company try and also gather an additional Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also since our team drive back with the branch taking up the rear end, we may also possess a work space our team've already steered over - hopefully exposing some interior base also just before drilling.