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Sols 4255-4256: Just Going through

.Discovering ourselves lower than a gauge from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on an incredibly knowledgeable strategy: Starting along with an arm backbone for taking out dirt and also making use of APXS to explore a bedrock aim at named "Russell Pass," putting the upper arm out of the way for image resolution, investing just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a drive in the afternoon. These plans, referred to as "touch-and-go" plans, are often active at the start as well as slow down in the end. Our travel this time is organized to go ~ 10 gauges practically flawlessly east and also leaving our heading nearly completely west. If on Friday, our wheels are well on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our practice, our team might be sitting tight for another 2 full weeks while we make an effort as well as accumulate an additional Gediz Vallis network sample. And also since our company steer backwards along with the branch taking up the rear, our experts may even possess a work space our team've presently steered over - perhaps revealing some inner bedrock also prior to drilling.