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Sols 4270-4272: Taste for SAM

.The emphasis for this three-sol weekend break strategy is actually delivering a section of the Kings Gulch drill sample to SAM for Evolved Gasoline Analysis (EGA), observing on coming from a successful CheMin analysis. The CheMin and SAM analyses, coupled along with APXS and also ChemCam analyses, will definitely inform us regarding the composition and mineralogy of the block within the Gediz Vallis stations down payment. Our company can easily contrast it to the structure and mineralogy of the fascinating Mammoth Lakes pierced sample at Whitebark Pass, which neighbored the essential sulfur blocks, and additionally within the Gediz Vallis down payment, along with to the bedrock outside the channel and also other previous pierced samples. This will definitely help update the resource( s) of the blocks, which could be stemmed from higher on Mount Sharp..