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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Passing Through

.Discovering our own selves less than a gauge coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on an incredibly knowledgeable planning: Beginning with an arm foundation for clearing away dust as well as using APXS to check out a base target named "Russell Pass," placing the upper arm off the beaten track for image resolution, devoting just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and finally a drive in the mid-day. These plans, referred to as "touch-and-go" programs, are actually usually occupied at the start and also slow down by the end. Our drive this moment is planned to go ~ 10 gauges virtually completely eastern and also leaving our moving nearly flawlessly west. If on Friday, our tires are actually solidly on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough bedrock area to put our exercise, our experts might be staying for an additional pair of weeks while our team attempt as well as gather yet another Gediz Vallis network sample. As well as considering that our team steer back along with the branch taking up the rear end, our team could even possess a work area our team have actually presently driven over - with any luck revealing some inner bedrock even prior to drilling.