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Sols 4257-4258: A Little Nudge on Kings Gulch

.The Drill Sol 1 planning possesses two purposes-- 1st to calculate if our target, Kings Gulch, complies with the science groups requirements for testing-- for instance, is it compositionally interesting? The second objective is actually to calculate if the rock and also particular aim for, are secure to bore can it take care of the forces coming from the practice, for example. We phone this task a "practice preload test." Consequently, the major tasks in today's plan are actually the preload examination and contact science on Kings Canyon-- our company are going to initially clean the target to eliminate surface dust and then take view image resolution along with our MAHLI instrument as well as compositional data with our APXS guitar.