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Sols 4255-4256: Only Going through

.Discovering ourselves less than a meter coming from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on a quite knowledgeable program: Starting with an arm basis for getting rid of dust and making use of APXS to check out a bedrock intended called "Russell Pass," putting the upper arm off the beaten track for image resolution, investing merely over an hour on Mastcam imaging as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another upper arm foundation for MAHLI photos of Russell Pass, and also finally a ride in the mid-day. These programs, referred to "touch-and-go" plans, are actually generally active at the beginning as well as decrease in the end. Our ride this moment is prepared to go ~ 10 meters nearly flawlessly east and leaving our moving almost flawlessly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually well on the Martian ground as well as there is a flat-enough base surface area to place our drill, our team could be staying put for yet another 2 full weeks while our team try as well as gather an additional Gediz Vallis network example. And also because our team drive backwards along with the branch taking up the rear end, our company may also possess a work environment our company have actually already steered over - with any luck revealing some internal base also just before drilling.

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