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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Locating our own selves less than a gauge from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, we began on an extremely knowledgeable plan: Starting with an upper arm foundation for clearing away dust and utilizing APXS to investigate a bedrock aim at named "Russell Elapsed," putting the arm off the beaten track for imaging, devoting just over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also finally a drive in the afternoon. These plannings, referred to "touch-and-go" programs, are actually typically busy at the beginning and also slow at the end. Our ride this time around is actually planned to go ~ 10 meters practically wonderfully eastern and leaving our heading virtually perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are well on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock area to place our drill, our company could be remaining for an additional two full weeks while our experts make an effort and collect yet another Gediz Vallis network example. As well as given that we drive back with the arm occupying the rear end, our team might even have a work environment our company've presently steered over - with any luck revealing some inner bedrock even prior to drilling.

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