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Sols 4270-4272: Sample for SAM

.The emphasis for this three-sol weekend break plan is actually supplying a section of the Kings Gulch drill example to SAM for Evolved Gas Evaluation (EGA), observing on coming from a productive CheMin study. The CheMin and also SAM evaluations, coupled with APXS as well as ChemCam reviews, will certainly tell our team concerning the composition and also mineralogy of the block within the Gediz Vallis stations deposit. Our team can compare it to the structure as well as mineralogy of the appealing Mammoth Lakes bored sample at Whitebark Pass, which was near the important sulfur blocks, and likewise within the Gediz Vallis deposit, as well as to the bedrock outside the network and also other previous punched examples. This will certainly aid inform the source( s) of the blocks, which could be stemmed from higher up on Mount Sharp..