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Sols 4270-4272: Taste for SAM

.The concentration for this three-sol weekend planning is providing a part of the Kings Gulch drill example to SAM for Evolved Gas Study (EGA), complying with on coming from a prosperous CheMin evaluation. The CheMin and SAM evaluations, coupled along with APXS as well as ChemCam evaluations, will definitely tell us regarding the composition as well as mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis channel deposit. Our team may compare it to the composition and mineralogy of the intriguing Mammoth Lakes bored sample at Whitebark Pass, which was near the important sulfur blocks, and also within the Gediz Vallis deposit, along with to the base outside the channel as well as various other previous punched examples. This will certainly help educate the source( s) of the blocks, which can be derived from higher up on Mount Sharp..