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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Finding ourselves lower than a gauge coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a very knowledgeable strategy: Beginning along with an arm basis for getting rid of dust as well as making use of APXS to investigate a base aim at named "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, devoting only over an hour on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and lastly a travel in the mid-day. These strategies, dubbed "touch-and-go" programs, are usually busy at the start as well as slow down by the end. Our ride this time around is actually intended to go ~ 10 gauges just about flawlessly east and also leaving our heading almost wonderfully west. If on Friday, our wheels are solidly on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough base surface to position our practice, our team could be staying for yet another two full weeks while we make an effort as well as gather another Gediz Vallis network sample. And given that our experts steer back along with the arm using up the rear, our experts may even possess a workspace we've presently driven over - hopefully exposing some interior base even before drilling.