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Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Revelation Pinnacle to Kings Gulch as well as Back Once Again

.Our team are actually back ... virtually, anyways. Today's vehicle parking location is actually very near to where our experts parked on sol 4253, and in a region near some of the previous call scientific research targets "Discovery Epitome." You may check out in this article that many of the team, this blogger featured, resided in Pasadena for our team appointment when our experts were last in this field. That was July as well as Inquisitiveness will transform 12 on Mars. Going back is a really uncommon event and also is always prepared properly. One or two times during the course of the last 12 years it took place since our team saw one thing "in the rear mirror." One of the examples is the target "Old Soaker," where our experts located dirt cracks in the photos from a previous car parking placement, and immediately returned due to the fact that this was such a significant revelation. At various other opportunities it was very carefully considered, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can enjoy in this particular online video from as long back as Planet year 2015. In the past few preparation cycles, it is actually even more of the last as we created our means from Breakthrough Pinnacle, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Merely going through" "Russell Elapsed" as well as arriving at "Kings Canyon," our drill site, which our experts met on sol 4257. You can comply with all the action of the exploration at Kings Gulch on the blog sites. It took an although-- it consistently performs-- given that it's a task with many steps and investigations to accomplish. Our team in fact celebrated Curiosity's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Canyon! Our company departed on sol 4283, went back through "Sanctuary Peak," and also are currently near the Discovery Pinnacle site once more. After that little hike via the record of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, especially the really last one, let's take a look at today's planning.