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Sols 4255-4256: Just Travelling through

.Discovering our own selves lower than a gauge from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on an incredibly acquainted planning: Beginning along with an upper arm backbone for taking out dust and also making use of APXS to check out a base intended called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the upper arm out of the way for imaging, spending simply over a hr on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as eventually a travel in the mid-day. These plans, called "touch-and-go" strategies, are usually busy at the beginning as well as slow down at the end. Our ride this time around is actually prepared to go ~ 10 gauges nearly completely east as well as leaving our moving virtually completely west. If on Friday, our tires are solidly on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our drill, our company may be sitting tight for an additional two weeks while we attempt and also collect one more Gediz Vallis stations sample. And given that our experts steer in reverse with the branch taking up the rear, our company could also have a work space we've actually steered over - perhaps revealing some inner bedrock also before boring.