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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Going through

.Locating ourselves less than a gauge coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, we began on an incredibly acquainted planning: Beginning along with an arm backbone for getting rid of dust and also utilizing APXS to explore a bedrock target named "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the upper arm off the beaten track for imaging, devoting merely over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and eventually a drive in the mid-day. These programs, referred to as "touch-and-go" plannings, are commonly active at the beginning and slow down by the end. Our travel this moment is actually planned to go ~ 10 gauges virtually flawlessly east as well as leaving our heading virtually wonderfully west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually well on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface to position our exercise, our team may be sitting tight for one more 2 weeks while our team make an effort and also accumulate another Gediz Vallis stations example. As well as due to the fact that our team steer in reverse with the arm using up the rear end, our team could even have a work environment we've actually steered over - perhaps revealing some interior bedrock even just before boring.

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