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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Going through

.Locating our own selves lower than a gauge coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, we began on a very acquainted planning: Beginning with an arm backbone for getting rid of dirt as well as making use of APXS to investigate a bedrock intended named "Russell Pass," placing the upper arm off the beaten track for image resolution, spending simply over a hr on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another upper arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and ultimately a drive in the afternoon. These strategies, called "touch-and-go" plannings, are commonly hectic at the start and also reduce by the end. Our drive this time is organized to go ~ 10 meters almost completely eastern and also leaving our moving nearly completely west. If on Friday, our tires are solidly on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough base surface to place our practice, our company may be staying for another 2 weeks while our experts make an effort and accumulate yet another Gediz Vallis network sample. And also due to the fact that we steer backwards along with the arm using up the back, our company may also possess a work area we have actually presently steered over - ideally exposing some internal bedrock even before drilling.