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Sols 4257-4258: A Little Push on Kings Canyon

.The Drill Sol 1 planning has two functions-- 1st to find out if our target, Kings Canyon, complies with the science groups requirements for sampling-- for example, is it compositionally intriguing? The 2nd objective is to determine if the stone as well as certain aim for, are actually risk-free to bore can it manage the forces coming from the drill, as an example. We phone this task a "practice preload examination." Consequently, the primary tasks in today's planning are the preload examination and connect with science on Kings Gulch-- we are going to first comb the aim at to remove surface dust and afterwards take close-up image resolution along with our MAHLI instrument and also compositional data with our APXS musical instrument.

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