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Sols 4255-4256: Only Travelling through

.Locating our own selves less than a gauge coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a very familiar strategy: Starting along with an upper arm foundation for eliminating dirt and also making use of APXS to explore a base intended named "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the arm out of the way for image resolution, devoting simply over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as eventually a ride in the afternoon. These strategies, referred to "touch-and-go" programs, are actually typically active at the start as well as decrease in the end. Our ride this moment is actually organized to go ~ 10 meters practically completely eastern as well as leaving our heading almost completely west. If on Friday, our tires are actually steadily on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base area to position our drill, our company might be sitting tight for one more two full weeks while we attempt and collect another Gediz Vallis channel sample. And also due to the fact that our company drive backwards along with the branch using up the rear, our company could also have a work environment our team have actually already driven over - ideally exposing some interior bedrock even just before drilling.