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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Going through

.Finding our own selves less than a meter coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on a very knowledgeable planning: Starting along with an arm foundation for getting rid of dust and also making use of APXS to check out a base aim at called "Russell Pass," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, investing just over an hour on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more upper arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also eventually a travel in the mid-day. These programs, termed "touch-and-go" programs, are actually normally hectic at the start and slow at the end. Our ride this time around is prepared to go ~ 10 gauges almost perfectly eastern and also leaving our moving practically flawlessly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually steadily on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our practice, our company may be remaining for an additional pair of weeks while our company attempt and also pick up another Gediz Vallis stations sample. And since our experts steer in reverse with the arm occupying the back, we might also have a work environment our team have actually actually driven over - ideally subjecting some internal bedrock also before boring.