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Sols 4255-4256: Just Travelling through

.Finding ourselves lower than a meter coming from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, we started on a really knowledgeable strategy: Starting along with an upper arm backbone for clearing away dirt as well as using APXS to examine a bedrock target called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, spending just over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then another arm backbone for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as finally a drive in the mid-day. These plannings, referred to "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually often busy at the beginning and also slow in the end. Our ride this time around is considered to go ~ 10 meters virtually perfectly east as well as leaving our moving virtually perfectly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually well on the Martian ground as well as there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our exercise, our company could be sitting tight for yet another 2 weeks while our company try and pick up another Gediz Vallis network sample. And also considering that our company steer back with the arm taking up the rear, our team could even have an office our experts've currently driven over - hopefully exposing some inner bedrock even prior to boring.