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

.Our company are actually back ... nearly, anyways. Today's car park area is actually really near where our company parked on sol 4253, and in a location near one of the previous connect with science targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You can check out in this article that the majority of the team, this blog owner included, was in Pasadena for our team meeting when our experts were final in this area. That was actually July and also Curiosity was about to turn 12 on Mars. Coming back is a really uncommon affair as well as is regularly organized properly. One or two times during the course of the final 12 years it occurred given that we observed one thing "in the rear looking glass." Among the examples is the aim at "Old Cloudburst," where our company found mud gaps in the photos from a previous vehicle parking placement, as well as immediately got back considering that this was actually such an essential revelation. At other opportunities it was carefully planned, such as the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily see within this online video coming from as lengthy back as Planet year 2015. In the past couple of preparing patterns, it is actually even more of the second as we created our technique from Finding Pinnacle, where we got on sol 4253, "Only passing through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also arriving at "Kings Gulch," our practice site, which our experts met on sol 4257. You can easily follow all the activity of the drilling at Kings Gulch on the weblogs. It took a while-- it consistently carries out-- given that it is actually a task along with a lot of actions and also investigations to finish. We really commemorated Interest's 12th birthday at Kings Gulch! Our experts departed on sol 4283, came back by means of "Cathedral Peak," and are right now near the Exploration Epitome place once more. Afterwards little bit of hike through the history of (some) of Inquisitiveness's hikes, especially the incredibly last one, let's take a look at today's plan.