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Sols 4270-4272: Sample for SAM

.The focus for this three-sol weekend break program is delivering a section of the Kings Gulch pierce sample to SAM for Evolved Fuel Review (EGA), following on coming from a successful CheMin evaluation. The CheMin and SAM evaluations, paired with APXS as well as ChemCam reviews, will certainly tell our team concerning the composition and mineralogy of this block within the Gediz Vallis stations down payment. We can easily compare it to the make-up and mineralogy of the intriguing Mammoth Lakes bored sample at Whitebark Pass, which neighbored the elemental sulfur blocks, as well as additionally within the Gediz Vallis deposit, along with to the bedrock outside the network and also various other previous bored samples. This will aid update the source( s) of the blocks, which might be derived from higher up on Mount Sharp..