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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Passing Through

.Finding our own selves lower than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, we began on a very familiar planning: Starting with an upper arm foundation for removing dust as well as utilizing APXS to look into a base target called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm out of the way for image resolution, devoting merely over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm basis for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and eventually a travel in the afternoon. These plannings, referred to "touch-and-go" plans, are actually normally busy at the start and also slow in the end. Our travel this time is organized to go ~ 10 meters virtually wonderfully east and also leaving our heading virtually perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are steadily on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base area to place our drill, our team could be sitting tight for another 2 weeks while our experts attempt and also pick up an additional Gediz Vallis channel example. And due to the fact that our team drive backwards along with the branch using up the rear end, our team might even possess a work space our company have actually currently steered over - perhaps revealing some interior bedrock also before drilling.