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Sols 4255-4256: Only Travelling through

.Locating our own selves less than a gauge from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a really familiar plan: Beginning along with an upper arm foundation for eliminating dust and using APXS to explore a base aim at named "Russell Pass," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, devoting merely over a hr on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also lastly a drive in the afternoon. These programs, referred to as "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually normally busy at the beginning and also decrease in the end. Our drive this moment is actually considered to go ~ 10 gauges just about wonderfully eastern and leaving our heading almost wonderfully west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are solidly on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough bedrock area to place our practice, our experts might be staying put for yet another two full weeks while we attempt and collect an additional Gediz Vallis network example. And also considering that our company steer in reverse with the arm occupying the rear end, our experts could also have an office our team have actually presently driven over - with any luck subjecting some inner bedrock even prior to exploration.

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