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Sols 4257-4258: A Little Push on Kings Gulch

.The Practice Sol 1 planning possesses 2 functions-- 1st to determine if our aim for, Kings Gulch, complies with the scientific research crews criteria for tasting-- for example, is it compositionally intriguing? The 2nd purpose is actually to determine if the rock as well as particular aim for, are safe to pierce can it take care of the forces coming from the exercise, as an example. We call this task a "exercise preload test." For that reason, the major activities in today's program are the preload examination and get in touch with science on Kings Gulch-- we will certainly initially clean the intended to clear away surface dirt and then take close-up image resolution with our MAHLI instrument as well as compositional records with our APXS equipment.