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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Discovering our own selves less than a gauge from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our company began on an extremely knowledgeable strategy: Starting with an arm backbone for getting rid of dust and also utilizing APXS to look into a base aim at named "Russell Elapsed," placing the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, spending merely over a hr on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more arm basis for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and also finally a drive in the afternoon. These programs, referred to "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually generally occupied at the start and also reduce in the end. Our ride this moment is actually organized to go ~ 10 meters almost flawlessly eastern and leaving our moving almost completely west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually sturdily on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough base surface to place our practice, we may be staying for an additional two full weeks while we attempt as well as gather another Gediz Vallis stations sample. As well as due to the fact that our company drive back along with the arm occupying the rear end, our company may also have a work space our team've presently driven over - ideally subjecting some inner bedrock also just before exploration.