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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Finding ourselves lower than a gauge from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on a quite acquainted strategy: Starting along with an arm foundation for eliminating dirt and utilizing APXS to explore a bedrock target called "Russell Successfully pass," putting the upper arm out of the way for imaging, investing only over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more upper arm foundation for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and finally a drive in the afternoon. These programs, referred to as "touch-and-go" plans, are actually generally hectic at the beginning and slow at the end. Our travel this moment is actually organized to go ~ 10 gauges practically perfectly east as well as leaving our moving practically completely west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually sturdily on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base surface area to position our practice, our company may be remaining for one more two full weeks while our team make an effort and also pick up another Gediz Vallis network example. And considering that we drive in reverse along with the arm using up the rear, we may also have a work environment we have actually presently driven over - ideally leaving open some internal base even prior to drilling.

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