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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Travelling through

.Locating our own selves less than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on a quite acquainted strategy: Starting along with an arm backbone for clearing away dirt and using APXS to examine a bedrock intended named "Russell Pass," placing the upper arm off the beaten track for image resolution, investing merely over a hr on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another upper arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, as well as ultimately a ride in the afternoon. These programs, called "touch-and-go" plans, are generally hectic at the start and also slow down by the end. Our ride this time is considered to go ~ 10 meters just about flawlessly eastern and leaving our moving just about flawlessly west. If on Friday, our tires are actually solidly on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to place our drill, our team could be remaining for another pair of full weeks while our experts make an effort and pick up one more Gediz Vallis channel example. And also because we steer in reverse with the branch using up the rear, our experts might also possess a work area our company've currently driven over - ideally leaving open some internal base even before boring.