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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Passing Through

.Discovering our own selves less than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our experts began on a really knowledgeable strategy: Starting with an arm backbone for getting rid of dust and making use of APXS to examine a bedrock target called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the upper arm out of the way for imaging, devoting just over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm foundation for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and finally a ride in the afternoon. These plannings, called "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually generally occupied at the start as well as slow down by the end. Our travel this time is actually planned to go ~ 10 meters almost flawlessly eastern as well as leaving our heading nearly perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually well on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our exercise, our team could be staying for yet another 2 full weeks while our experts make an effort as well as accumulate yet another Gediz Vallis network sample. And due to the fact that our company steer backwards with the branch using up the back, our company could also possess an office our company've currently steered over - perhaps revealing some inner bedrock even just before exploration.