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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Discovering our own selves less than a meter from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on a really acquainted plan: Starting with an upper arm backbone for getting rid of dust as well as utilizing APXS to examine a bedrock intended called "Russell Pass," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, investing just over an hour on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then another arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also finally a travel in the mid-day. These plannings, referred to as "touch-and-go" plans, are actually usually busy at the start as well as slow in the end. Our travel this time around is actually prepared to go ~ 10 gauges nearly wonderfully east as well as leaving our moving virtually perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough base surface to put our drill, our company might be sitting tight for an additional two full weeks while our company make an effort as well as pick up an additional Gediz Vallis network example. And since we drive in reverse with the arm taking up the back, our experts may even possess a workspace our team've already driven over - hopefully subjecting some interior base also before boring.

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