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Sols 4343-4344: Overdue Slide, Late Adjustments

.On sols 4343-4344, Curiosity will concentrate on analyzing blocks of carefully split or even "laminated" bases in its own work area. The "Backbone Creek" target, which has an erosion immune vertical fin of darker material, will definitely be zapped due to the ChemCam laser device to figure out composition, and photographed through Mastcam. "Basis Creek" is actually named for a flow in the western side foothills of the Sierra Nevada of California circulating by means of a Natural Research study Location created to defend the endangered Carpenteria californica forest hedge. Inquisitiveness is actually presently in the "Bishop" quadrangle on our map, so all of targets in this area of Mount Sharp are actually named after places in the Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley of The Golden State. A neighboring aim at rock, "Fantail Pond," which possesses straight fins among its own levels, will certainly additionally be imaged at high settlement through Mastcam. This intended label honors a large towering lake at nearly 10,000 feet only beyond the eastern boundary of Yosemite National Park. A broken rock called "Sector Dome," after a set of Yosemite National forest's impressive granitic domes along the matchless wall surface of Tenaya Canyon between Fifty Percent Dome and Cloud's Rest, will definitely be actually the subject of mosaic images for each Mastcam and also ChemCam RMI to obtain splendid information on fragile coatings across its own faulty area (view picture). The ChemCam RMI telescopic video camera will consider lightweight toned rocks on the top Gediz Vallis ridge. Curiosity will certainly likewise carry out a Navcam dust devil motion picture and mosaic of dirt on the rover deck, then establish dirt opacity in the setting using Mastcam..