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Sols 4270-4272: Test for SAM

.The focus for this three-sol weekend break strategy is delivering a portion of the Kings Gulch punch example to SAM for Evolved Gas Evaluation (EGA), observing on coming from a prosperous CheMin study. The CheMin as well as SAM reviews, coupled along with APXS and ChemCam reviews, will tell our team about the composition and also mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis channel deposit. Our company may compare it to the composition as well as mineralogy of the fascinating Mammoth Lakes bored sample at Whitebark Pass, which was near the essential sulfur blocks, and also within the Gediz Vallis deposit, and also to the bedrock outside the channel and other previous bored samples. This are going to help educate the source( s) of the blocks, which might be stemmed from higher up on Mount Sharp..