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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Going through

.Locating our own selves less than a gauge coming from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on an incredibly familiar plan: Beginning along with an upper arm backbone for clearing away dirt and utilizing APXS to investigate a base intended called "Russell Pass," placing the upper arm off the beaten track for imaging, devoting only over a hr on Mastcam imaging and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another upper arm backbone for MAHLI images of Russell Pass, as well as finally a travel in the mid-day. These plans, referred to "touch-and-go" plannings, are often occupied at the beginning and reduce by the end. Our travel this moment is actually considered to go ~ 10 gauges virtually perfectly east and leaving our moving nearly wonderfully west. If on Friday, our wheels are actually sturdily on the Martian ground and there is a flat-enough bedrock surface area to place our exercise, our company could be staying for an additional 2 full weeks while our experts attempt as well as gather an additional Gediz Vallis stations example. And also due to the fact that our experts steer back with the branch taking up the rear end, our company might also possess a work environment our company've already driven over - ideally exposing some inner base also just before exploration.

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