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Sols 4255-4256: Only Travelling through

.Finding ourselves less than a meter from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on an extremely acquainted planning: Starting along with an upper arm basis for removing dust as well as making use of APXS to check out a bedrock intended called "Russell Pass," putting the upper arm out of the way for imaging, spending only over an hour on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and eventually a drive in the afternoon. These plans, nicknamed "touch-and-go" plans, are actually normally hectic at the beginning and reduce by the end. Our ride this moment is considered to go ~ 10 meters just about perfectly east as well as leaving our moving just about perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are solidly on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough base area to position our drill, our experts could be remaining for one more pair of full weeks while our company make an effort as well as gather yet another Gediz Vallis stations example. As well as given that our experts steer in reverse along with the branch using up the rear end, we could also have a work space we have actually actually steered over - hopefully subjecting some inner base also prior to drilling.