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Sols 4255-4256: Only Going through

.Finding our own selves lower than a meter coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on an extremely acquainted program: Beginning along with an arm basis for removing dust and also utilizing APXS to explore a base intended called "Russell Pass," putting the arm out of the way for imaging, spending just over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more arm basis for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and lastly a travel in the mid-day. These plannings, called "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually normally hectic at the beginning and slow in the end. Our travel this moment is planned to go ~ 10 meters practically completely eastern and leaving our moving almost wonderfully west. If on Friday, our tires are actually sturdily on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough bedrock surface to place our exercise, our company may be staying for yet another 2 full weeks while our experts attempt as well as gather an additional Gediz Vallis network sample. And since our team steer in reverse with the arm occupying the rear end, we may also have a workspace our company have actually actually driven over - perhaps revealing some internal base even prior to drilling.