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Sols 4257-4258: A Little Bit Of Poke on Kings Canyon

.The Drill Sol 1 planning possesses 2 functions-- first to identify if our target, Kings Gulch, meets the science crews requirements for tasting-- as an example, is it compositionally intriguing? The 2nd objective is actually to identify if the rock and also specific aim for, are actually safe to bore can easily it manage the forces coming from the practice, for instance. Our experts contact this activity a "practice preload examination." Consequently, the major tasks in today's planning are actually the preload examination and contact science on Kings Canyon-- we will definitely first clean the intended to get rid of area dust and after that take close-up imaging along with our MAHLI instrument and compositional data with our APXS instrument.