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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Passing Through

.Discovering our own selves lower than a gauge from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on a quite knowledgeable program: Beginning along with an arm backbone for removing dust and using APXS to look into a bedrock target named "Russell Elapsed," positioning the upper arm off the beaten track for imaging, devoting simply over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another arm backbone for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and also finally a ride in the afternoon. These programs, called "touch-and-go" plans, are generally hectic at the start and reduce at the end. Our ride this time is actually considered to go ~ 10 meters nearly flawlessly eastern and also leaving our heading just about perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base surface area to place our drill, our company might be staying for one more 2 full weeks while our team make an effort and gather one more Gediz Vallis channel example. As well as due to the fact that we steer in reverse with the branch taking up the rear end, our company might even have a work environment our experts have actually already driven over - ideally subjecting some inner base also prior to boring.