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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Passing Through

.Discovering our own selves less than a gauge from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on a quite knowledgeable program: Beginning along with an upper arm basis for removing dirt and also using APXS to look into a bedrock aim at called "Russell Successfully pass," placing the upper arm out of the way for image resolution, spending just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a drive in the mid-day. These programs, termed "touch-and-go" programs, are actually often occupied at the beginning and slow down at the end. Our drive this time is considered to go ~ 10 gauges nearly completely eastern and also leaving our heading nearly perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough bedrock area to place our drill, our team might be staying for an additional two full weeks while our company make an effort and accumulate an additional Gediz Vallis network example. And due to the fact that we drive in reverse with the branch using up the rear, our experts could even possess an office our experts have actually already driven over - ideally leaving open some inner bedrock also prior to drilling.