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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Travelling through

.Finding our own selves lower than a meter coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a very acquainted planning: Beginning with an upper arm foundation for clearing away dust and also utilizing APXS to examine a bedrock aim at named "Russell Pass," placing the arm out of the way for image resolution, devoting just over a hr on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then another arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also finally a travel in the mid-day. These plans, dubbed "touch-and-go" programs, are often occupied at the beginning and also reduce at the end. Our ride this moment is intended to go ~ 10 meters nearly wonderfully east and leaving our moving practically flawlessly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually steadily on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface to put our exercise, our company might be sitting tight for another pair of weeks while our company try and gather an additional Gediz Vallis channel sample. As well as given that our company steer in reverse along with the arm using up the back, our company might even possess a work environment our company have actually presently steered over - ideally revealing some interior bedrock even prior to drilling.