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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Travelling through

.Locating ourselves less than a meter coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on an extremely familiar planning: Starting along with an arm foundation for eliminating dirt and making use of APXS to check out a bedrock aim at called "Russell Elapsed," placing the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, spending merely over an hour on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another upper arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as finally a drive in the afternoon. These programs, referred to as "touch-and-go" plans, are actually normally hectic at the start as well as slow down by the end. Our ride this moment is considered to go ~ 10 meters almost perfectly east as well as leaving our heading almost completely west. If on Friday, our tires are sturdily on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough base surface area to place our exercise, our experts could be remaining for an additional pair of weeks while our company attempt and collect one more Gediz Vallis channel example. And also given that our experts steer in reverse with the arm taking up the rear, our company could also possess a work space our team've actually steered over - perhaps leaving open some interior base even prior to drilling.