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Sols 4255-4256: Just Passing Through

.Discovering our own selves lower than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on a really familiar program: Starting with an upper arm backbone for taking out dirt and also making use of APXS to investigate a base aim at called "Russell Elapsed," putting the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, investing simply over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then another upper arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and eventually a ride in the afternoon. These plans, called "touch-and-go" plannings, are typically active at the beginning and also slow in the end. Our drive this moment is organized to go ~ 10 gauges nearly flawlessly east as well as leaving our heading virtually wonderfully west. If on Friday, our tires are actually well on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough bedrock area to place our exercise, our experts may be staying put for another two full weeks while our company make an effort and also accumulate an additional Gediz Vallis channel sample. And also because our experts steer in reverse along with the arm using up the rear, our company might also have a work space our experts have actually actually steered over - with any luck revealing some inner bedrock even just before drilling.