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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Going through

.Discovering our own selves less than a gauge coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a quite acquainted program: Beginning along with an arm backbone for getting rid of dirt and also using APXS to explore a bedrock intended named "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the upper arm out of the way for imaging, spending merely over a hr on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a ride in the mid-day. These strategies, called "touch-and-go" programs, are often active at the start as well as reduce by the end. Our drive this time is prepared to go ~ 10 meters virtually flawlessly eastern and also leaving our moving nearly wonderfully west. If on Friday, our wheels are sturdily on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough base surface area to put our practice, our team could be sitting tight for another pair of full weeks while we make an effort as well as accumulate one more Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also given that our company drive in reverse with the arm using up the rear, our team could even possess a workspace our experts've currently driven over - with any luck leaving open some internal bedrock even prior to exploration.