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Sols 4255-4256: Just Travelling through

.Finding ourselves lower than a meter coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a quite acquainted planning: Starting with an arm foundation for clearing away dirt and utilizing APXS to explore a bedrock target named "Russell Successfully pass," putting the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, investing just over a hr on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then another upper arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also lastly a travel in the afternoon. These strategies, termed "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually usually busy at the beginning and also reduce by the end. Our ride this time is organized to go ~ 10 gauges just about flawlessly east and leaving our moving nearly perfectly west. If on Friday, our tires are actually solidly on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough base surface area to place our practice, our company may be remaining for an additional 2 full weeks while our experts make an effort as well as collect one more Gediz Vallis network example. And also since our team steer in reverse with the arm taking up the rear end, we may also possess a work area we have actually currently steered over - hopefully exposing some interior bedrock also before exploration.