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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Travelling through

.Discovering ourselves lower than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our experts began on an extremely knowledgeable strategy: Starting along with an arm basis for clearing away dust as well as using APXS to check out a bedrock aim at called "Russell Elapsed," putting the arm out of the way for image resolution, devoting merely over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another upper arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and ultimately a travel in the mid-day. These strategies, called "touch-and-go" plans, are actually normally busy at the beginning and also reduce in the end. Our ride this moment is organized to go ~ 10 meters just about wonderfully east as well as leaving our moving virtually completely west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually steadily on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our practice, we may be sitting tight for yet another two weeks while our company attempt and also collect an additional Gediz Vallis network sample. As well as due to the fact that our company steer backwards along with the arm using up the rear end, our company could also possess a work environment our team have actually actually driven over - perhaps leaving open some interior bedrock even just before boring.