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Sols 4255-4256: Just Going through

.Discovering our own selves less than a meter coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our company began on a quite acquainted planning: Beginning along with an arm backbone for taking out dust and using APXS to investigate a base aim at called "Russell Elapsed," putting the upper arm out of the way for imaging, devoting simply over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another arm basis for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as ultimately a ride in the afternoon. These programs, dubbed "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually often active at the beginning and decrease at the end. Our ride this moment is considered to go ~ 10 meters almost completely eastern and leaving our heading just about perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually well on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough base area to place our drill, our team might be sitting tight for an additional 2 full weeks while our team attempt and pick up another Gediz Vallis channel sample. And also due to the fact that our team steer in reverse with the arm taking up the rear, our company could even possess a work space our company have actually presently steered over - ideally revealing some interior base even prior to drilling.