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Sols 4289-4290: From Exploration Pinnacle to Kings Gulch as well as Back Again

.Our experts are back ... practically, anyways. Today's auto parking location is actually very near to where our company parked on sol 4253, and in a region near among the previous contact science targets "Revelation Peak." You can read through in this particular blog post that a lot of the group, this blog writer included, resided in Pasadena for our crew meeting when our company were actually final in this area. That was July as well as Interest will transform 12 on Mars. Going back is actually an incredibly unusual celebration as well as is always considered meticulously. Once or twice during the last 12 years it took place due to the fact that our company viewed one thing "in the back looking glass." Among the examples is actually the intended "Old Soaker," where our experts detected dirt splits in the images coming from a previous car parking setting, and also quickly went back due to the fact that this was such an essential revelation. At various other times it was actually carefully prepared, including the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily watch in this particular online video coming from as lengthy back as The planet year 2015. Before couple of preparing patterns, it is actually additional of the last as we made our method coming from Finding Peak, where we were on sol 4253, "Just passing through" "Russell Pass" and coming to "Kings Canyon," our drill site, which our team reached on sol 4257. You can easily follow all the activity of the boring at Kings Canyon on the blogs. It took an even though-- it constantly performs-- because it is actually an activity with a lot of steps and examinations to accomplish. Our team actually celebrated Curiosity's 12th special day at Kings Gulch! Our experts departed on sol 4283, came back through "Sanctuary Peak," and are right now near the Exploration Pinnacle place again. After that little bit of walkabout via the background of (some) of Inquisitiveness's hikes, particularly the quite final one, permit's consider today's strategy.