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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Travelling through

.Finding ourselves lower than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our company began on a really familiar planning: Starting along with an arm foundation for taking out dust and also using APXS to examine a bedrock target named "Russell Elapsed," placing the arm off the beaten track for imaging, investing just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more upper arm basis for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as finally a travel in the mid-day. These programs, referred to as "touch-and-go" strategies, are typically hectic at the start as well as slow by the end. Our drive this time is organized to go ~ 10 gauges virtually perfectly east and 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 base area to put our practice, our experts might be sitting tight for one more 2 weeks while our team make an effort and pick up an additional Gediz Vallis stations sample. As well as considering that our experts drive in reverse along with the arm taking up the rear end, our team could even have a workspace our company have actually currently driven over - ideally subjecting some interior bedrock also prior to drilling.