.Our experts are actually back ... just about, anyways. Today's vehicle parking place is actually quite near to where our experts stationed on sol 4253, and in a region near among the previous call scientific research targets "Exploration Pinnacle." You can easily go through in this article that most of the crew, this blogger featured, remained in Pasadena for our group meeting when our company were final around. That was actually July and Curiosity will turn 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a really unusual event and is constantly prepared properly. Once or twice throughout the final 12 years it occurred given that our company saw something "in the rear mirror." Among the examples is actually the intended "Old Soaker," where our team located mud gaps in the graphics coming from a previous parking posture, and immediately returned because this was such a significant exploration. At various other times it was thoroughly considered, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily enjoy within this video clip coming from as lengthy back as The planet year 2015. Previously couple of preparing cycles, it is actually even more of the latter as our experts made our method coming from Finding Pinnacle, where we got on sol 4253, "Only going through" "Russell Successfully pass" and reaching "Kings Gulch," our practice location, which our company achieved on sol 4257. You may follow all the activity of the boring at Kings Canyon on the blogs. It took a while-- it always carries out-- due to the fact that it's a task with numerous measures and inspections to complete. Our experts really commemorated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday party at Kings Gulch! Our team left on sol 4283, returned via "Cathedral Peak," as well as are currently near the Exploration Peak location once more. After that little bit of hike with the background of (some) of Curiosity's hikes, especially the very final one, permit's examine today's planning.