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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Travelling through

.Finding ourselves less than a gauge from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our experts started on a very knowledgeable strategy: Starting with an arm basis for getting rid of dirt and also making use of APXS to check out a base intended named "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm out of the way for image resolution, spending simply over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another upper arm foundation for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and also eventually a ride in the mid-day. These plans, called "touch-and-go" plannings, are usually hectic at the start and also slow down at the end. Our drive this time around is considered to go ~ 10 gauges almost completely eastern as well as leaving our heading almost completely west. If on Friday, our wheels are well on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough bedrock area to place our practice, our experts may be staying for one more pair of full weeks while our experts make an effort and also collect yet another Gediz Vallis stations sample. As well as considering that we drive backwards with the arm using up the rear, our company might even possess an office our team've presently steered over - perhaps leaving open some internal bedrock also before drilling.