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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Locating our own selves lower than a gauge from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on an extremely familiar plan: Starting along with an upper arm basis for taking out dirt and utilizing APXS to check out a base intended called "Russell Pass," placing the arm out of the way for image resolution, investing simply over a hr on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more upper arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and lastly a travel in the mid-day. These plans, called "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually commonly busy at the start and also decrease by the end. Our ride this time is organized to go ~ 10 meters practically completely east and leaving our moving nearly flawlessly west. If on Friday, our tires are well on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough base surface area to put our exercise, our company might be remaining for an additional two weeks while we try and gather one more Gediz Vallis channel example. And since we drive in reverse with the branch using up the rear end, our company could even have a workspace our company have actually currently steered over - perhaps subjecting some inner bedrock also just before exploration.