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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Passing Through

.Finding our own selves lower than a gauge coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on a very familiar strategy: Starting with an arm foundation for getting rid of dirt and utilizing APXS to look into a base target named "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the upper arm out of the way for image resolution, investing merely over a hr on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another upper arm basis for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as finally a travel in the afternoon. These programs, referred to "touch-and-go" strategies, are usually hectic at the start as well as decrease at the end. Our ride this time is organized to go ~ 10 meters practically flawlessly east and also leaving our moving nearly perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are solidly on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our exercise, our team could be sitting tight for another two full weeks while our team attempt as well as accumulate an additional Gediz Vallis network sample. And considering that our company steer in reverse with the arm occupying the rear end, we may even possess a work environment our company've presently driven over - ideally leaving open some interior base even prior to drilling.

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