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Sols 4289-4290: From Exploration Pinnacle to Kings Gulch and also Back Once More

.We are back ... practically, anyways. Today's car park location is really close to where our company parked on sol 4253, and in a region near one of the previous get in touch with scientific research targets "Exploration Pinnacle." You can review in this article that many of the staff, this blogger consisted of, remained in Pasadena for our crew conference when we were actually last in this field. That was July and Curiosity will transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a really uncommon occasion and also is actually consistently considered properly. One or two times during the course of the last 12 years it happened given that we observed something "in the rear mirror." Some of the examples is the target "Old Cloudburst," where our experts spotted mud splits in the pictures coming from a previous car park posture, as well as without delay went back considering that this was actually such an important revelation. At various other times it was very carefully considered, like the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can watch in this particular video coming from as lengthy back as The planet year 2015. Previously handful of planning cycles, it is actually more of the last as we created our way coming from Invention Epitome, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Simply passing through" "Russell Successfully pass" and arriving at "Kings Canyon," our exercise place, which our experts met on sol 4257. You can observe all the activity of the exploration at Kings Canyon on the blogging sites. It took an even though-- it always carries out-- given that it is actually a task with several actions and also examinations to complete. Our company actually celebrated Interest's 12th birthday party at Kings Canyon! Our team left on sol 4283, returned through "Cathedral Peak," and also are now near the Revelation Peak site once again. Afterwards little walkabout by means of the background of (some) of Interest's walkabouts, specifically the extremely final one, allow's look at today's planning.

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