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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Locating ourselves less than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a quite familiar planning: Beginning along with an arm basis for getting rid of dust and also using APXS to look into a base aim at called "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, spending just over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more arm backbone for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and eventually a travel in the afternoon. These plannings, referred to "touch-and-go" programs, are generally busy at the beginning and slow in the end. Our ride this time around is considered to go ~ 10 gauges almost flawlessly eastern and leaving our heading just about perfectly west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are steadily on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface to place our drill, our company could be remaining for an additional pair of full weeks while our team try as well as accumulate yet another Gediz Vallis stations example. As well as considering that our company steer backwards along with the arm using up the back, our team might even possess a work environment we've already driven over - with any luck revealing some internal base also before drilling.