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Sols 4255-4256: Just Going through

.Finding our own selves lower than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on an extremely knowledgeable strategy: Starting with an upper arm backbone for getting rid of dust as well as making use of APXS to check out a bedrock intended called "Russell Pass," positioning the upper arm off the beaten track for image resolution, spending only over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also ultimately a drive in the mid-day. These plans, called "touch-and-go" programs, are normally active at the beginning and reduce in the end. Our ride this time around is planned to go ~ 10 meters almost flawlessly east and also leaving our moving nearly completely west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually sturdily on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough base surface to put our exercise, our experts could be staying put for one more 2 weeks while our experts make an effort and gather an additional Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also due to the fact that our experts drive back with the branch using up the back, our team might even possess a work space our team have actually actually driven over - with any luck exposing some inner bedrock even just before drilling.