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Sols 4270-4272: Experience for SAM

.The focus for this three-sol weekend strategy is delivering a part of the Kings Gulch drill sample to SAM for Evolved Fuel Evaluation (EGA), adhering to on coming from a successful CheMin analysis. The CheMin and also SAM evaluations, paired with APXS and also ChemCam studies, will certainly inform us regarding the composition as well as mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis stations down payment. Our company can compare it to the structure and mineralogy of the fascinating Mammoth Lakes pierced example at Whitebark Pass, which neighbored the important sulfur blocks, and also within the Gediz Vallis deposit, along with to the bedrock outside the channel and other previous drilled samples. This will certainly aid educate the source( s) of the blocks, which might be stemmed from higher up on Mount Sharp..