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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Going through

.Finding ourselves lower than a meter from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on a really acquainted planning: Beginning along with an arm foundation for clearing away dust as well as using APXS to look into a bedrock aim at named "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, investing just over a hr on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another upper arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also eventually a drive in the mid-day. These strategies, referred to "touch-and-go" programs, are normally occupied at the start and also slow down at the end. Our travel this time around is intended to go ~ 10 gauges virtually perfectly eastern and leaving our moving just about completely west. If on Friday, our tires are solidly on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough bedrock surface to place our drill, we may be staying put for yet another two weeks while our team attempt and also pick up an additional Gediz Vallis network sample. As well as considering that we drive backwards along with the arm occupying the back, we could also have a work area our company've already steered over - ideally leaving open some interior bedrock also prior to drilling.