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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Passing Through

.Locating ourselves lower than a meter coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on a really acquainted planning: Beginning along with an upper arm basis for getting rid of dirt and also using APXS to look into a base intended called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm out of the way for imaging, devoting just over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another arm basis for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as ultimately a travel in the mid-day. These plans, referred to as "touch-and-go" plans, are commonly occupied at the beginning and decrease at the end. Our travel this time around is organized to go ~ 10 meters almost completely east as well as leaving our moving practically perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are sturdily on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to position our drill, our team may be sitting tight for one more pair of weeks while we make an effort and also gather one more Gediz Vallis channel example. And considering that we steer back with the arm occupying the rear end, our company may also possess a work area our company have actually actually driven over - hopefully revealing some inner bedrock also prior to drilling.

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