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Sols 4270-4272: Taste for SAM

.The focus for this three-sol weekend break strategy is delivering a part of the Kings Canyon bore example to SAM for Evolved Gasoline Evaluation (EGA), following on coming from an effective CheMin evaluation. The CheMin and also SAM analyses, combined with APXS and also ChemCam studies, are going to inform our company about the structure and mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis network deposit. Our team can compare it to the composition and also mineralogy of the appealing Mammoth Lakes pierced sample at Whitebark Pass, which was near the elemental sulfur blocks, and likewise within the Gediz Vallis deposit, in addition to to the bedrock outside the network as well as other previous pierced examples. This will definitely help update the source( s) of the blocks, which might be derived from higher on Mount Sharp..