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Sols 4270-4272: Try Out for SAM

.The concentration for this three-sol weekend break plan is actually providing a part of the Kings Gulch drill sample to SAM for Evolved Fuel Analysis (EGA), complying with on from a successful CheMin evaluation. The CheMin and SAM reviews, paired with APXS and also ChemCam evaluations, will definitely tell our company concerning the make-up as well as mineralogy of this particular block within the Gediz Vallis channel down payment. Our team can easily contrast it to the make-up and mineralogy of the interesting Mammoth Lakes bored sample at Whitebark Pass, which neighbored the elemental sulfur blocks, and additionally within the Gediz Vallis deposit, as well as to the bedrock outside the stations and various other previous bored examples. This will certainly help notify the source( s) of the blocks, which could be derived from higher up on Mount Sharp..