.Our company are back ... practically, anyways. Today's auto parking location is actually extremely near to where our experts stationed on sol 4253, as well as in a location near some of the previous contact science targets "Discovery Pinnacle." You may check out within this post that a lot of the crew, this blog owner consisted of, remained in Pasadena for our group conference when we were actually last in this area. That was actually July and also Curiosity will turn 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a quite uncommon event and also is constantly prepared thoroughly. Once or twice in the course of the final 12 years it happened given that our team saw one thing "in the back looking glass." Among the instances is the intended "Old Cloudburst," where we detected mud fractures in the photos coming from a previous car park placement, as well as immediately got back since this was such a significant exploration. At various other opportunities it was actually properly organized, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily view within this video coming from as lengthy back as Planet year 2015. Previously few organizing patterns, it is actually more of the second as our experts created our method from Discovery Epitome, where our company were on sol 4253, "Only travelling through" "Russell Elapsed" as well as getting to "Kings Gulch," our drill site, which we met on sol 4257. You can observe all the activity of the boring at Kings Gulch on the blog sites. It took an although-- it consistently carries out-- given that it's an activity with many actions as well as inspections to accomplish. We really celebrated Curiosity's 12th special day at Kings Gulch! We departed on sol 4283, came back using "Sanctuary Peak," and also are actually currently near the Exploration Peak location once more. Afterwards little bit of hike with the background of (some) of Interest's hikes, particularly the very last one, allow's examine today's strategy.