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Sols 4255-4256: Simply Going through

.Finding our own selves lower than a gauge from our enthusiastic end-of-drive on Monday, our team began on a really knowledgeable planning: Beginning along with an upper arm backbone for getting rid of dust and also making use of APXS to check out a bedrock aim at called "Russell Pass," putting the upper arm out of the way for imaging, spending merely over a hr on Mastcam image resolution as well as ChemCam LIBS on Russell Pass, after that another arm foundation for MAHLI pictures of Russell Pass, and also eventually a ride in the afternoon. These plans, referred to "touch-and-go" plannings, are actually typically hectic at the beginning and slow down at the end. Our drive this moment is prepared to go ~ 10 gauges practically perfectly east as well as leaving our moving practically completely west. If on Friday, our steering wheels are actually solidly on the Martian ground and there is actually a flat-enough base area to put our practice, our company could be staying for another pair of weeks while we attempt as well as collect an additional Gediz Vallis channel sample. As well as because we drive in reverse along with the arm using up the rear, we could even possess a work environment our team have actually actually driven over - hopefully revealing some internal bedrock also before exploration.

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