Space

Sols 4255-4256: Merely Passing Through

.Locating ourselves less than a gauge coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our company began on an extremely familiar strategy: Starting along with an upper arm basis for getting rid of dust and using APXS to explore a base aim at named "Russell Successfully pass," putting the upper arm out of the way for imaging, investing just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a drive in the afternoon. These programs, dubbed "touch-and-go" plans, are typically hectic at the beginning and reduce in the end. Our ride this time around is organized to go ~ 10 gauges just about flawlessly eastern and leaving our heading almost wonderfully west. If on Friday, our tires are solidly on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough bedrock area to put our exercise, our team might be remaining for an additional 2 full weeks while we try and also gather another Gediz Vallis channel example. And because our company steer back with the branch using up the rear end, our experts might even have an office our company have actually currently steered over - perhaps leaving open some internal base even before exploration.