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Sols 4270-4272: Experience for SAM

.The focus for this three-sol weekend program is actually supplying a section of the Kings Canyon punch sample to SAM for Evolved Gas Review (EGA), adhering to on from an effective CheMin analysis. The CheMin as well as SAM evaluations, coupled along with APXS and also ChemCam analyses, will certainly tell our team regarding the structure as well as mineralogy of this particular block within the Gediz Vallis stations down payment. We may compare it to the make-up and mineralogy of the intriguing Mammoth Lakes punched example at Whitebark Pass, which neighbored the elemental sulfur blocks, as well as likewise within the Gediz Vallis down payment, and also to the bedrock outside the channel and also other previous drilled samples. This will certainly assist educate the source( s) of the blocks, which could be originated from higher up on Mount Sharp..