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Sols 4255-4256: Just Going through

.Finding ourselves less than a meter coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a very familiar program: Beginning with an arm basis for getting rid of dirt as well as making use of APXS to look into a bedrock aim at called "Russell Successfully pass," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, spending merely over a hr on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that one more arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also ultimately a ride in the mid-day. These strategies, referred to as "touch-and-go" strategies, are typically occupied at the beginning and slow down in the end. Our ride this moment is intended to go ~ 10 meters nearly perfectly east and leaving our moving just about perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are well on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to place our exercise, our company could be staying put for an additional two full weeks while we make an effort as well as collect an additional Gediz Vallis channel sample. And also due to the fact that we drive back along with the branch taking up the rear, our experts could even possess a work environment our experts've presently driven over - hopefully leaving open some internal bedrock also just before boring.

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