.Our company are actually back ... nearly, anyways. Today's auto parking area is actually really near where our experts parked on sol 4253, and also in a location near among the previous contact scientific research targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You can easily check out in this particular blog post that the majority of the group, this blog writer included, was in Pasadena for our staff meeting when our company were last in this area. That was July as well as Curiosity was about to transform 12 on Mars. Returning is actually an extremely rare occasion as well as is actually consistently prepared carefully. Once or twice in the course of the final 12 years it occurred due to the fact that our experts found one thing "in the rear looking glass." Some of the examples is the intended "Old Soaker," where our company found dirt fractures in the graphics coming from a previous auto parking posture, and also immediately returned due to the fact that this was actually such a significant exploration. At other times it was actually meticulously prepared, such as the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can enjoy in this video from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Previously handful of planning cycles, it is actually more of the second as we made our way coming from Discovery Peak, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Merely travelling through" "Russell Elapsed" and also reaching "Kings Canyon," our drill place, which we reached on sol 4257. You may observe all the activity of the exploration at Kings Gulch on the weblogs. It took a while-- it regularly does-- because it's an activity along with several actions as well as inspections to accomplish. We really commemorated Curiosity's 12th special day at Kings Canyon! Our experts departed on sol 4283, went back via "Cathedral Top," and also are currently near the Discovery Pinnacle location once more. After that little walkabout with the history of (some) of Inquisitiveness's walkabouts, especially the very final one, permit's take a look at today's program.