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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Passing Through

.Discovering ourselves less than a gauge coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, we began on an extremely acquainted program: Starting with an arm basis for eliminating dirt as well as making use of APXS to look into a base target called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the upper arm off the beaten track for image resolution, devoting merely over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another upper arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, as well as finally a travel in the mid-day. These plannings, nicknamed "touch-and-go" plans, are actually usually hectic at the start as well as slow at the end. Our ride this time is considered to go ~ 10 meters almost flawlessly east and also leaving our heading practically flawlessly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually steadily on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough base surface area to put our exercise, our team could be remaining for another pair of full weeks while our company attempt and also collect another Gediz Vallis channel example. As well as due to the fact that our team steer in reverse with the branch occupying the rear end, our team might even possess a work environment our experts've already driven over - perhaps revealing some interior base also before boring.