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Sols 4343-4344: Overdue Slide, Late Improvements

.On sols 4343-4344, Interest will concentrate on taking a look at blocks of carefully split or "laminated" bedrocks in its own work area. The "Heart Spring" intended, which has an erosion resistant upright fin of darker product, will certainly be zapped by the ChemCam laser device to find out structure, and also captured on film by Mastcam. "Basis Spring" is named for a stream in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada of California circulating by means of a Natural Research study Place created to shield the jeopardized Carpenteria californica forest hedge. Inquisitiveness is actually currently in the "Bishop" quadrangle on our chart, so all targets in this field of Mount Sharp are actually called after places in the Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley of California. A bordering aim at stone, "Fantail Pond," which has straight fins one of its layers, will certainly likewise be imaged at higher settlement through Mastcam. This aim at label respects a large towering pond at nearly 10,000 feet simply beyond the asian limit of Yosemite National Park. A fractured rock termed "Quarter Dome," after a set of Yosemite National Park's incredible granitic domes along the superior wall structure of Tenaya Gulch between One-half Dome and also Cloud's Rest, will certainly be the target of mosaic photos for both Mastcam and ChemCam RMI to secure exquisite particular on delicate levels across its damaged area (see image). The ChemCam RMI telescopic video camera are going to check out lightweight toned stones on the higher Gediz Vallis ridge. Curiosity will also perform a Navcam dust adversary movie and variety of dust on the vagabond deck, at that point figure out dust opacity in the atmosphere using Mastcam..