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Sols 4255-4256: Just Travelling through

.Discovering our own selves lower than a meter coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on a really familiar strategy: Beginning along with an upper arm backbone for getting rid of dirt and utilizing APXS to look into a base target called "Russell Elapsed," putting the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, spending just over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another upper arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also finally a travel in the mid-day. These plannings, nicknamed "touch-and-go" programs, are actually commonly busy at the start as well as slow in the end. Our drive this time is actually prepared to go ~ 10 gauges practically completely east as well as leaving our heading virtually perfectly west. If on Friday, our tires are actually solidly on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough bedrock area to place our practice, we could be sitting tight for yet another 2 weeks while our company make an effort and gather one more Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also since our experts drive back along with the branch taking up the back, our team could also possess a work space we have actually currently steered over - ideally revealing some inner base also just before drilling.