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Sols 4343-4344: Overdue Slide, Overdue Adjustments

.On sols 4343-4344, Curiosity will definitely focus on reviewing blocks of carefully split or "laminated" bedrocks in its workspace. The "Heart Creek" intended, which has an erosion resisting upright fin of dark material, will definitely be actually zapped by the ChemCam laser to establish composition, as well as captured on film through Mastcam. "Foundation Spring" is named for a flow in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada of California circulating by means of a Natural Analysis Area created to guard the risked Carpenteria californica timberland hedge. Curiosity is presently in the "Diocesan" quadrangle on our map, so all of targets around of Mount Sharp are called after spots in the Sierra Nevada as well as Owens Valley of California. A bordering intended stone, "Fantail Lake," which possesses straight fins one of its own layers, will certainly likewise be actually imaged at higher settlement through Mastcam. This target label tributes a big alpine lake at virtually 10,000 feet just past the far eastern border of Yosemite National Park. A broken stone called "Sector Dome," after a set of Yosemite National Park's exceptional granitic domes along the superior wall of Tenaya Gulch in between One-half Dome and also Cloud's Relax, will certainly be the target of mosaic pictures for both Mastcam and also ChemCam RMI to acquire superb particular on fragile layers around its own faulty surface area (see picture). The ChemCam RMI telescopic video camera will definitely look at lightweight toned rocks on the top Gediz Vallis spine. Curiosity will additionally carry out a Navcam dirt adversary motion picture and variety of dust on the wanderer deck, at that point determine dust opacity in the environment making use of Mastcam..