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Sols 4257-4258: A Little Push on Kings Gulch

.The Exercise Sol 1 plan possesses 2 purposes-- 1st to determine if our aim for, Kings Canyon, complies with the science groups criteria for testing-- for instance, is it compositionally fascinating? The 2nd objective is to find out if the rock and also certain aim for, are safe to bore can easily it manage the forces coming from the practice, for example. Our team phone this activity a "practice preload test." For that reason, the major activities in today's program are the preload examination and also connect with scientific research on Kings Gulch-- we will initially clean the target to get rid of surface dust and then take close-up image resolution along with our MAHLI equipment and compositional records along with our APXS musical instrument.