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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Discovering ourselves less than a meter coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on an incredibly acquainted planning: Starting with an upper arm foundation for removing dirt and also making use of APXS to look into a bedrock intended called "Russell Elapsed," placing the arm out of the way for imaging, devoting simply over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as finally a travel in the afternoon. These strategies, referred to as "touch-and-go" plans, are typically active at the beginning and reduce at the end. Our drive this time around is intended to go ~ 10 meters practically wonderfully east and leaving our heading practically perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock surface to position our drill, our team could be staying for yet another two full weeks while our experts make an effort as well as collect one more Gediz Vallis network example. And since we drive in reverse with the branch taking up the rear end, we could also have a work environment our company've presently driven over - perhaps subjecting some inner base even prior to drilling.