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Sols 4343-4344: Overdue Slide, Overdue Modifications

.On sols 4343-4344, Curiosity will definitely concentrate on checking out blocks of carefully layered or "laminated" bedrocks in its own workspace. The "Backbone Spring" intended, which has a disintegration immune vertical fin of dark product, will certainly be actually zapped due to the ChemCam laser to figure out make-up, and photographed through Mastcam. "Backbone Creek" is actually named for a flow in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada of California moving by means of a Natural Analysis Place developed to guard the jeopardized Carpenteria californica woodland hedge. Inquisitiveness is presently in the "Diocesan" quadrangle on our map, thus all of targets in this area of Mount Sharp are actually called after places in the Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley of The Golden State. A surrounding aim at rock, "Fantail Lake," which possesses straight fins one of its coatings, will likewise be actually imaged at high resolution by Mastcam. This intended label honors a big alpine lake at nearly 10,000 feet just past the eastern limit of Yosemite National forest. A broken stone dubbed "Sector Dome," after a set of Yosemite National forest's exceptional granitic domes along the superior wall of Tenaya Gulch between Fifty Percent Dome as well as Cloud's Relax, will be actually the target of mosaic pictures for both Mastcam as well as ChemCam RMI to get elegant detail on fragile levels across its damaged surface (observe picture). The ChemCam RMI telescopic video camera are going to look at lightweight toned stones on the top Gediz Vallis spine. Interest will certainly additionally do a Navcam dirt devil motion picture as well as mosaic of dust on the vagabond deck, then identify dust opacity in the ambience making use of Mastcam..