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Sols 4343-4344: Late Slide, Late Improvements

.On sols 4343-4344, Interest will focus on examining blocks of carefully split or even "laminated" bases in its own work space. The "Heart Creek" aim at, which has a destruction resisting vertical fin of darker product, will be zapped due to the ChemCam laser to identify composition, and also captured on film by Mastcam. "Foundation Spring" is actually named for a flow in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada of The golden state streaming via a Natural Research study Region created to defend the imperiled Carpenteria californica timberland bush. Curiosity is currently in the "Diocesan" quadrangle on our chart, thus all of targets around of Mount Sharp are called after areas in the Sierra Nevada as well as Owens Valley of The Golden State. A surrounding intended rock, "Fantail Lake," which possesses straight fins one of its layers, will certainly also be imaged at higher settlement by Mastcam. This target title tributes a huge aerial pond at almost 10,000 feet just past the asian border of Yosemite National forest. A broken stone dubbed "Quarter Dome," after a set of Yosemite National forest's incredible granitic domes along the superior wall of Tenaya Canyon in between One-half Dome and Cloud's Relax, are going to be actually the subject of mosaic images for each Mastcam and also ChemCam RMI to acquire elegant information on fragile coatings throughout its faulty surface (see graphic). The ChemCam RMI telescopic camera are going to look at light toned rocks on the top Gediz Vallis spine. Interest will also do a Navcam dirt devil motion picture and mosaic of dust on the rover deck, after that calculate dust opacity in the environment utilizing Mastcam..