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Sols 4255-4256: Just Going through

.Finding ourselves less than a gauge coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a very knowledgeable strategy: Starting with an upper arm backbone for removing dirt as well as making use of APXS to check out a bedrock intended called "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the upper arm out of the way for imaging, devoting merely over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a drive in the afternoon. These strategies, called "touch-and-go" strategies, are often occupied at the start and slow at the end. Our drive this time around is actually planned to go ~ 10 meters nearly flawlessly eastern and leaving our heading practically perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are solidly on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our exercise, we might be remaining for another 2 full weeks while our team make an effort and pick up one more Gediz Vallis channel example. As well as considering that our experts steer backwards along with the arm occupying the rear, our company may also possess a workspace our company've presently steered over - with any luck subjecting some interior base even just before boring.