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Sols 4255-4256: Just Travelling through

.Discovering our own selves less than a gauge coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a quite familiar program: Starting along with an upper arm basis for removing dirt and also using APXS to check out a base intended named "Russell Elapsed," placing the upper arm out of the way for imaging, devoting just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more upper arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and ultimately a drive in the mid-day. These strategies, referred to as "touch-and-go" strategies, are normally occupied at the beginning and reduce by the end. Our travel this time around is actually organized to go ~ 10 meters practically completely east and leaving our heading nearly perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually steadily on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough base surface to put our exercise, our experts might be remaining for another 2 weeks while our company try and gather another Gediz Vallis channel sample. As well as considering that our experts drive in reverse with the arm taking up the rear end, our experts could also possess a work area our company have actually actually driven over - perhaps leaving open some inner bedrock even prior to drilling.