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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Going through

.Discovering ourselves lower than a gauge from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on a quite familiar planning: Beginning along with an arm backbone for removing dust and using APXS to look into a bedrock target named "Russell Elapsed," putting the upper arm out of the way for imaging, spending just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also eventually a travel in the afternoon. These strategies, referred to "touch-and-go" programs, are normally hectic at the start and slow by the end. Our travel this time around is actually planned to go ~ 10 gauges virtually completely east and also leaving our heading just about completely west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base area to position our drill, our company could be remaining for an additional two full weeks while our experts try and also pick up yet another Gediz Vallis stations sample. As well as given that our experts steer backwards with the branch taking up the rear end, we could also possess a work area we have actually presently driven over - hopefully exposing some internal base even prior to drilling.