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Sols 4257-4258: A Little Push on Kings Canyon

.The Drill Sol 1 planning has 2 reasons-- very first to find out if our aim for, Kings Gulch, meets the science groups requirements for testing-- for example, is it compositionally intriguing? The 2nd goal is to figure out if the stone and also particular aim for, are actually safe to bore may it handle the forces coming from the exercise, as an example. Our experts phone this activity a "practice preload test." Therefore, the major tasks in today's planning are actually the preload test and contact scientific research on Kings Canyon-- our experts are going to first brush the intended to clear away area dirt and then take close-up imaging along with our MAHLI tool and also compositional data along with our APXS instrument.