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Sols 4270-4272: Taste for SAM

.The concentration for this three-sol weekend strategy is supplying a portion of the Kings Gulch punch example to SAM for Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA), observing on coming from a prosperous CheMin study. The CheMin as well as SAM studies, coupled along with APXS and also ChemCam studies, will tell our team regarding the composition and also mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis channel down payment. Our team can easily compare it to the make-up and also mineralogy of the appealing Mammoth Lakes bored sample at Whitebark Pass, which was near the important sulfur blocks, as well as also within the Gediz Vallis deposit, along with to the bedrock outside the channel as well as various other previous drilled examples. This will definitely assist update the source( s) of the blocks, which might be originated from higher on Mount Sharp..