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Sols 4255-4256: Just Passing Through

.Finding ourselves lower than a meter coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on an extremely acquainted strategy: Starting along with an arm backbone for taking out dirt and utilizing APXS to examine a bedrock intended called "Russell Pass," placing the arm out of the way for image resolution, investing just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more upper arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also ultimately a travel in the mid-day. These plannings, termed "touch-and-go" programs, are often occupied at the start and slow down by the end. Our ride this time around is actually planned to go ~ 10 gauges practically wonderfully east and also leaving our heading practically wonderfully west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are well on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough base surface to place our drill, our experts might be remaining for one more 2 weeks while our experts try as well as collect another Gediz Vallis network sample. And also because we steer back along with the arm taking up the back, our team might also have a work environment our team've already driven over - perhaps exposing some internal base also just before drilling.

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