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Sols 4255-4256: Just Travelling through

.Discovering our own selves lower than a meter coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on an extremely knowledgeable planning: Starting along with an arm backbone for removing dirt and using APXS to investigate a bedrock target called "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the upper arm out of the way for imaging, spending simply over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another arm foundation for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a drive in the afternoon. These plans, referred to "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually often occupied at the start and also slow at the end. Our ride this moment is planned to go ~ 10 gauges almost wonderfully eastern and leaving our heading just about flawlessly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base surface to position our drill, our experts may be staying for yet another 2 weeks while our experts try and accumulate another Gediz Vallis stations example. And given that our team drive in reverse with the branch occupying the rear, our experts might even have a work environment our experts have actually currently steered over - ideally exposing some interior base even before drilling.