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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Going through

.Locating ourselves lower than a gauge from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a very familiar strategy: Beginning with an upper arm basis for eliminating dirt and also utilizing APXS to check out a base intended named "Russell Pass," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, investing merely over a hr on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also ultimately a travel in the afternoon. These programs, referred to as "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually typically occupied at the start as well as reduce at the end. Our travel this moment is considered to go ~ 10 gauges nearly flawlessly eastern as well as leaving our heading nearly perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are well on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base area to place our exercise, our experts may be staying for yet another 2 weeks while our experts make an effort and also accumulate an additional Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also considering that we drive in reverse with the arm taking up the rear end, we might even have a work environment our company have actually already driven over - ideally subjecting some interior bedrock even prior to boring.