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Sols 4257-4258: A Little Push on Kings Canyon

.The Exercise Sol 1 plan possesses two purposes-- initial to figure out if our aim for, Kings Canyon, complies with the scientific research staffs standards for testing-- for instance, is it compositionally exciting? The 2nd goal is actually to calculate if the rock and also certain target, are actually safe to drill can easily it manage the troops coming from the exercise, as an example. We call this task a "drill preload test." As a result, the key activities in today's strategy are the preload examination as well as contact science on Kings Gulch-- we are going to to begin with comb the aim at to eliminate surface area dust and then take close-up image resolution along with our MAHLI instrument and also compositional information along with our APXS equipment.