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Sols 4255-4256: Only Passing Through

.Locating our own selves lower than a gauge from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our team started on an incredibly familiar strategy: Beginning along with an upper arm backbone for getting rid of dust and also using APXS to check out a base aim at called "Russell Elapsed," positioning the arm off the beaten track for imaging, spending merely over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and also ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, at that point another upper arm basis for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, as well as eventually a travel in the afternoon. These strategies, termed "touch-and-go" strategies, are commonly busy at the beginning and decrease in the end. Our travel this moment is actually planned to go ~ 10 gauges virtually flawlessly eastern and leaving our moving almost wonderfully west. If on Friday, our tires are well on the Martian ground and also there is actually a flat-enough bedrock surface area to put our drill, our company may be sitting tight for an additional pair of weeks while our team try as well as gather yet another Gediz Vallis network sample. And also considering that our company drive back along with the branch occupying the back, our experts might even possess a work environment our team have actually already driven over - hopefully exposing some interior base even before drilling.