.Our company are actually back ... nearly, anyways. Today's car park location is quite close to where our team stationed on sol 4253, and also in a region near one of the previous get in touch with science targets "Exploration Epitome." You can easily go through in this blog that the majority of the group, this writer featured, resided in Pasadena for our staff meeting when our experts were last around. That was actually July as well as Curiosity was about to turn 12 on Mars. Coming back is a very uncommon occasion and also is actually always prepared thoroughly. Once or twice in the course of the final 12 years it took place considering that our experts found one thing "in the rear mirror." One of the instances is the target "Old Soaker," where our team detected dirt splits in the graphics from a previous car park setting, and also immediately got back due to the fact that this was such a vital discovery. At other opportunities it was carefully prepared, such as the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily watch in this particular video recording from as lengthy back as The planet year 2015. Before few planning patterns, it's even more of the second as our experts made our way coming from Finding Epitome, where our company were on sol 4253, "Merely travelling through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also coming to "Kings Gulch," our exercise location, which our experts met on sol 4257. You may adhere to all the action of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the blog posts. It took an although-- it always performs-- given that it's a task along with several measures and examinations to complete. Our company actually celebrated Curiosity's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Canyon! We left on sol 4283, went back via "Basilica Top," and also are actually now near the Exploration Pinnacle area again. After that little walkabout via the record of (some) of Curiosity's hikes, particularly the quite final one, allow's examine today's plan.