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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Finding ourselves less than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on a very familiar planning: Beginning along with an upper arm backbone for taking out dust and utilizing APXS to examine a bedrock aim at named "Russell Pass," placing the arm out of the way for imaging, investing simply over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as lastly a ride in the mid-day. These programs, nicknamed "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually generally occupied at the beginning and slow down by the end. Our ride this time is prepared to go ~ 10 gauges virtually flawlessly east and also leaving our moving just about completely west. If on Friday, our tires are actually well on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough base surface area to position our exercise, our company may be sitting tight for one more pair of weeks while we try and also collect another Gediz Vallis stations sample. And also since we steer back with the arm occupying the rear, our experts may even have a work space our company have actually currently steered over - with any luck exposing some inner bedrock also just before boring.