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Sols 4255-4256: Just Travelling through

.Discovering ourselves lower than a meter coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on an incredibly knowledgeable strategy: Starting with an upper arm basis for eliminating dirt and making use of APXS to explore a bedrock target called "Russell Pass," positioning the upper arm out of the way for image resolution, devoting only over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another upper arm basis for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, and ultimately a travel in the afternoon. These strategies, referred to as "touch-and-go" strategies, are actually typically hectic at the beginning as well as reduce in the end. Our drive this moment is planned to go ~ 10 meters nearly wonderfully east as well as leaving our moving just about wonderfully west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface to put our practice, our company could be remaining for one more pair of weeks while our company attempt as well as pick up another Gediz Vallis channel sample. And due to the fact that we drive backwards with the branch taking up the rear, we might even have a work space our team have actually currently driven over - hopefully leaving open some interior bedrock also before boring.

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