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Sols 4255-4256: Just Passing Through

.Locating ourselves lower than a meter from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on a very familiar program: Beginning along with an upper arm backbone for clearing away dust as well as making use of APXS to check out a base intended called "Russell Elapsed," placing the upper arm out of the way for imaging, spending only over an hour on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more upper arm basis for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, as well as ultimately a drive in the afternoon. These strategies, dubbed "touch-and-go" strategies, are generally active at the beginning and also slow in the end. Our travel this time is organized to go ~ 10 meters nearly wonderfully east and leaving our heading virtually 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 could be staying for one more 2 weeks while our experts try and accumulate another Gediz Vallis network example. And also given that our company drive backwards with the branch taking up the back, our company might even possess a work environment our company've already driven over - with any luck leaving open some inner base even prior to drilling.