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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Going through

.Finding ourselves less than a meter from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our company began on an extremely knowledgeable program: Beginning with an upper arm basis for taking out dirt as well as utilizing APXS to investigate a base intended called "Russell Successfully pass," putting the arm off the beaten track for imaging, investing simply over an hour on Mastcam imaging and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more upper arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and lastly a drive in the mid-day. These strategies, nicknamed "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually normally busy at the start and reduce at the end. Our drive this time is considered to go ~ 10 meters practically completely eastern and also leaving our heading almost flawlessly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually steadily on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough base surface area to position our drill, our company could be remaining for another pair of full weeks while our experts make an effort and pick up another Gediz Vallis channel example. And also considering that our team drive in reverse with the branch taking up the back, our experts might also have a work area our experts've presently driven over - ideally subjecting some inner bedrock even before boring.