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Sols 4255-4256: Only Going through

.Finding ourselves lower than a gauge from our hopeful end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on an extremely familiar program: Starting with an arm basis for getting rid of dust and also using APXS to examine a bedrock intended called "Russell Pass," putting the arm out of the way for imaging, spending simply over a hr on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then one more arm backbone for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as finally a ride in the mid-day. These programs, termed "touch-and-go" programs, are usually busy at the start and decrease in the end. Our ride this time is prepared to go ~ 10 gauges just about flawlessly eastern as well as leaving our heading virtually flawlessly west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually sturdily on the Martian ground and also there is a flat-enough bedrock surface to put our drill, our company may be sitting tight for yet another pair of weeks while our team make an effort and accumulate yet another Gediz Vallis channel sample. And because our company steer in reverse along with the arm taking up the back, we may also have an office our experts've currently steered over - with any luck exposing some interior bedrock even prior to drilling.