Space

Sols 4270-4272: Taste for SAM

.The focus for this three-sol weekend break program is providing a portion of the Kings Canyon bore example to SAM for Evolved Gasoline Analysis (EGA), complying with on coming from a prosperous CheMin study. The CheMin and also SAM analyses, combined with APXS and ChemCam evaluations, will certainly tell us concerning the composition and also mineralogy of this particular block within the Gediz Vallis stations deposit. We can easily compare it to the make-up and also mineralogy of the intriguing Mammoth Lakes bored example at Whitebark Pass, which neighbored the elemental sulfur blocks, and also within the Gediz Vallis deposit, along with to the bedrock outside the network and various other previous drilled samples. This are going to aid notify the source( s) of the blocks, which may be originated from higher up on Mount Sharp..