Space

Sols 4255-4256: Just Passing Through

.Finding ourselves less than a meter from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our experts began on a really acquainted program: Beginning with an arm foundation for removing dirt and using APXS to explore a base target named "Russell Pass," positioning the upper arm out of the way for imaging, investing just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and eventually a travel in the mid-day. These plannings, termed "touch-and-go" strategies, are generally hectic at the start and slow down at the end. Our ride this time is organized to go ~ 10 gauges almost perfectly east and also leaving our heading practically perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface to place our exercise, our experts may be remaining for another 2 weeks while we make an effort and also gather another Gediz Vallis network example. And also considering that we drive back with the branch using up the rear end, our team might even have a work space we've actually steered over - with any luck revealing some interior base even before drilling.