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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Finding our own selves less than a meter from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on an incredibly acquainted planning: Beginning with an upper arm basis for eliminating dust as well as making use of APXS to explore a bedrock target named "Russell Elapsed," putting the arm off the beaten track for imaging, devoting merely over a hr on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then another arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a drive in the afternoon. These programs, dubbed "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually usually occupied at the start as well as slow down in the end. Our ride this moment is actually organized to go ~ 10 meters almost completely eastern and also leaving our moving almost perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually steadily on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our practice, our team might be remaining for one more pair of full weeks while our team try and also accumulate another Gediz Vallis stations example. And also because our team steer back with the branch occupying the rear, we could even possess a work space our experts've actually steered over - with any luck revealing some inner bedrock even prior to drilling.

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