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Sols 4255-4256: Merely Passing Through

.Finding ourselves less than a meter from our confident end-of-drive on Monday, our company started on a quite familiar plan: Starting along with an upper arm foundation for removing dust and also utilizing APXS to examine a base aim at named "Russell Pass," putting the arm off the beaten track for image resolution, investing simply over an hour on Mastcam image resolution and ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, then another arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also ultimately a ride in the afternoon. These programs, nicknamed "touch-and-go" programs, are actually generally active at the start as well as slow down in the end. Our drive this time is intended to go ~ 10 gauges just about perfectly east and leaving our moving virtually wonderfully west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually steadily on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough base surface to place our practice, our team may be remaining for an additional 2 weeks while our company attempt and gather an additional Gediz Vallis stations example. As well as given that our team drive in reverse with the branch taking up the rear, our team may even possess a work area our team've actually driven over - perhaps leaving open some inner bedrock even before boring.