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Sols 4270-4272: Sample for SAM

.The focus for this three-sol weekend break planning is providing a portion of the Kings Gulch punch sample to SAM for Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA), complying with on from a successful CheMin analysis. The CheMin as well as SAM evaluations, coupled with APXS and ChemCam studies, will certainly tell us regarding the composition and also mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis stations down payment. Our experts can contrast it to the structure and mineralogy of the appealing Mammoth Lakes drilled sample at Whitebark Pass, which was near the essential sulfur blocks, and likewise within the Gediz Vallis down payment, and also to the base outside the stations and also various other previous pierced examples. This will certainly aid update the source( s) of the blocks, which may be originated from higher up on Mount Sharp..