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Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Revelation Epitome to Kings Gulch and also Back Once Again

.Our team are back ... practically, anyways. Today's vehicle parking location is very near to where our company positioned on sol 4253, and in an area near one of the previous get in touch with science targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You can easily check out in this particular blog that most of the group, this blog owner featured, remained in Pasadena for our staff meeting when our experts were actually last around. That was actually July and also Curiosity was about to turn 12 on Mars. Coming back is a really unusual event and is regularly intended meticulously. Once or twice throughout the final 12 years it occurred given that our company found something "in the rear looking glass." Among the examples is the intended "Old Cloudburst," where our experts detected dirt cracks in the graphics from a previous car park posture, as well as immediately went back due to the fact that this was actually such an essential exploration. At various other opportunities it was meticulously planned, like the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may watch within this online video coming from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Previously couple of preparation patterns, it is actually even more of the latter as our company made our method from Finding Pinnacle, where we got on sol 4253, "Merely passing through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also reaching "Kings Gulch," our practice site, which our team reached on sol 4257. You may adhere to all the activity of the boring at Kings Canyon on the blog posts. It took an even though-- it regularly performs-- considering that it is actually an activity along with many actions and inspections to complete. Our team actually commemorated Curiosity's 12th birthday at Kings Canyon! We departed on sol 4283, came back using "Cathedral Peak," as well as are right now near the Revelation Peak area again. After that little hike through the past of (some) of Interest's walkabouts, particularly the very last one, let's look at today's planning.