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Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Revelation Epitome to Kings Canyon as well as Back Again

.Our experts are actually back ... practically, anyways. Today's auto parking place is very near to where our experts stationed on sol 4253, and in a location near one of the previous get in touch with science targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You can check out in this article that many of the team, this writer featured, resided in Pasadena for our crew appointment when we were actually final around. That was July and also Curiosity will switch 12 on Mars. Coming back is a quite unusual event and is consistently intended carefully. One or two times during the last 12 years it happened since our experts saw one thing "in the back looking glass." One of the instances is the intended "Old Cloudburst," where we located mud cracks in the photos from a previous parking setting, and also without delay got back because this was such a vital exploration. At various other opportunities it was thoroughly planned, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may check out in this video from as long back as The planet year 2015. Previously few preparing patterns, it's more of the second as our experts made our means coming from Breakthrough Peak, where our team were on sol 4253, "Just passing through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also getting to "Kings Canyon," our drill location, which our experts achieved on sol 4257. You may comply with all the activity of the exploration at Kings Gulch on the blog sites. It took an although-- it consistently does-- given that it's a task with several steps as well as inspections to complete. Our team actually celebrated Inquisitiveness's 12th special day at Kings Canyon! Our team left on sol 4283, came back via "Cathedral Peak," and are actually currently near the Exploration Pinnacle place once more. Afterwards little walkabout by means of the record of (some) of Inquisitiveness's walkabouts, particularly the incredibly final one, allow's take a look at today's plan.

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