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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Travelling through

.Locating our own selves lower than a meter from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a very knowledgeable strategy: Beginning with an arm foundation for removing dust as well as using APXS to investigate a bedrock aim at named "Russell Successfully pass," putting the upper arm out of the way for image resolution, devoting just over a hr on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and finally a travel in the afternoon. These plannings, called "touch-and-go" plans, are actually often busy at the beginning as well as slow down by the end. Our ride this time is considered to go ~ 10 gauges virtually flawlessly eastern and also leaving our heading just about flawlessly west. If on Friday, our tires are sturdily on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to place our drill, our company might be remaining for an additional two weeks while our team attempt and pick up another Gediz Vallis network sample. And also given that our experts steer in reverse with the branch using up the rear, our team could also have an office we have actually presently driven over - with any luck leaving open some internal bedrock also before drilling.