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Sols 4270-4272: Try Out for SAM

.The concentration for this three-sol weekend break program is delivering a section of the Kings Canyon bore example to SAM for Evolved Fuel Evaluation (EGA), observing on from a prosperous CheMin study. The CheMin and also SAM reviews, coupled with APXS and ChemCam reviews, will inform our team about the structure as well as mineralogy of this particular block within the Gediz Vallis stations down payment. Our company can easily contrast it to the make-up and mineralogy of the intriguing Mammoth Lakes punched sample at Whitebark Pass, which neighbored the elemental sulfur blocks, and additionally within the Gediz Vallis down payment, and also to the base outside the channel and various other previous bored samples. This will definitely aid notify the source( s) of the blocks, which may be originated from higher up on Mount Sharp..