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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Finding our own selves lower than a meter from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on a really acquainted plan: Beginning along with an arm backbone for getting rid of dirt and also making use of APXS to explore a bedrock target called "Russell Successfully pass," placing the upper arm out of the way for imaging, devoting only over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and eventually a drive in the mid-day. These strategies, termed "touch-and-go" plans, are normally busy at the start and decrease by the end. Our travel this time is actually considered to go ~ 10 gauges virtually wonderfully eastern and leaving our heading almost perfectly 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 drill, our experts might be staying put for one more pair of weeks while our team try and accumulate another Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also since our company steer in reverse with the arm taking up the back, our experts might even have a workspace our company've presently steered over - perhaps revealing some inner base also before boring.