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Sols 4270-4272: Test for SAM

.The concentration for this three-sol weekend break planning is actually delivering a part of the Kings Canyon pierce sample to SAM for Evolved Fuel Study (EGA), following on coming from a successful CheMin evaluation. The CheMin and SAM reviews, combined with APXS and also ChemCam analyses, are going to inform us about the composition and mineralogy of this particular block within the Gediz Vallis channel deposit. We may review it to the structure and mineralogy of the intriguing Mammoth Lakes drilled sample at Whitebark Pass, which neighbored the elemental sulfur blocks, and also within the Gediz Vallis deposit, and also to the bedrock outside the channel as well as various other previous punched examples. This are going to help update the source( s) of the blocks, which may be stemmed from higher on Mount Sharp..