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

.The Exercise Sol 1 planning has pair of objectives-- very first to find out if our aim for, Kings Canyon, fulfills the scientific research teams criteria for tasting-- for example, is it compositionally interesting? The 2nd goal is actually to determine if the rock and certain aim for, are actually secure to drill may it deal with the forces coming from the drill, as an example. Our experts call this task a "drill preload examination." Consequently, the major activities in today's program are the preload test and contact scientific research on Kings Canyon-- we will certainly first comb the intended to clear away surface dust and afterwards take close-up image resolution with our MAHLI equipment and also compositional data along with our APXS tool.