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Sols 4270-4272: Sample for SAM

.The emphasis for this three-sol weekend break strategy is actually delivering a portion of the Kings Gulch drill example to SAM for Evolved Gasoline Study (EGA), complying with on from a productive CheMin analysis. The CheMin and also SAM reviews, paired along with APXS and ChemCam evaluations, will certainly tell us concerning the structure and also mineralogy of the block within the Gediz Vallis channel deposit. Our team can easily contrast it to the structure and also mineralogy of the intriguing Mammoth Lakes drilled sample at Whitebark Pass, which was near the essential sulfur blocks, and additionally within the Gediz Vallis deposit, in addition to to the bedrock outside the channel and also various other previous drilled samples. This will assist inform the source( s) of the blocks, which can be stemmed from higher up on Mount Sharp..