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Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Revelation Peak to Kings Canyon and Back Again

.Our experts are actually back ... just about, anyways. Today's parking location is really close to where we positioned on sol 4253, and also in an area near one of the previous call scientific research targets "Discovery Peak." You can easily read within this article that many of the group, this writer featured, resided in Pasadena for our staff meeting when our experts were last around. That was July and Inquisitiveness will transform 12 on Mars. Going back is an extremely unusual celebration and is regularly prepared thoroughly. Once or twice during the course of the last 12 years it occurred considering that our company viewed something "in the back mirror." Some of the examples is the aim at "Old Soaker," where we identified dirt splits in the photos coming from a previous auto parking posture, and quickly went back due to the fact that this was actually such a crucial exploration. At various other opportunities it was thoroughly planned, including the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may enjoy in this particular video recording from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Before couple of preparing cycles, it is actually more of the last as we created our means from Discovery Epitome, where our company performed sol 4253, "Just passing through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also getting to "Kings Canyon," our practice site, which our experts reached on sol 4257. You may follow all the action of the drilling at Kings Gulch on the blog posts. It took a while-- it constantly does-- due to the fact that it is actually an activity along with lots of measures as well as examinations to finish. We in fact commemorated Curiosity's 12th birthday party at Kings Gulch! We departed on sol 4283, went back via "Sanctuary Top," as well as are right now near the Revelation Epitome site once more. Afterwards little bit of hike by means of the record of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, specifically the quite last one, allow's consider today's plan.