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Sols 4270-4272: Taste for SAM

.The emphasis for this three-sol weekend program is actually supplying a part of the Kings Gulch drill sample to SAM for Evolved Fuel Analysis (EGA), observing on coming from a productive CheMin study. The CheMin and SAM analyses, combined along with APXS as well as ChemCam analyses, will certainly inform us concerning the composition and also mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis channel down payment. Our team can compare it to the composition as well as mineralogy of the intriguing Mammoth Lakes pierced sample at Whitebark Pass, which was near the elemental sulfur blocks, as well as additionally within the Gediz Vallis down payment, along with to the base outside the channel and also other previous punched samples. This will certainly aid inform the source( s) of the blocks, which may be stemmed from higher up on Mount Sharp..