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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Going through

.Locating ourselves less than a meter coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our company began on a very familiar program: Beginning along with an upper arm basis for eliminating dust and utilizing APXS to check out a base aim at called "Russell Pass," putting the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, spending only over a hr on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and lastly a ride in the mid-day. These plans, referred to as "touch-and-go" programs, are commonly active at the beginning and also decrease by the end. Our drive this moment is considered to go ~ 10 meters virtually flawlessly east and leaving our moving practically wonderfully west. If on Friday, our tires are actually steadily on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough base area to put our practice, our experts may be staying put for one more two weeks while our team try and also collect another Gediz Vallis network example. As well as because we drive in reverse with the branch using up the rear end, our experts could also possess a work environment our company have actually already steered over - perhaps exposing some interior bedrock even just before boring.