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Sols 4270-4272: Test for SAM

.The focus for this three-sol weekend break plan is actually providing a portion of the Kings Gulch punch example to SAM for Evolved Gas Review (EGA), following on coming from a prosperous CheMin evaluation. The CheMin as well as SAM analyses, coupled with APXS and ChemCam analyses, will certainly inform us about the composition and mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis channel down payment. Our team may contrast it to the composition and also mineralogy of the interesting Mammoth Lakes bored example 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 various other previous bored samples. This will definitely aid inform the source( s) of the blocks, which may be originated from higher up on Mount Sharp..