In planned subsequent steps, the sample will be was sieved, and portions of it delivered to the Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument and the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument.

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From CHIMRA, the samples will be sieved and delivered to two different instruments: the Chemistry and Mineralogy ( CheMin) instrument and the Sample Analysis at Mars ( SAM) instrument.

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At that time, Forest was developing an instrument for genetic analysis involving thousands of glass tubes.

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