.Our company are actually back ... virtually, anyways. Today's parking place is actually extremely close to where we stationed on sol 4253, and also in a region near some of the previous connect with science targets "Exploration Pinnacle." You may read within this post that many of the crew, this writer included, was in Pasadena for our group conference when our company were actually final in this field. That was actually July as well as Curiosity was about to turn 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a really unusual event and is consistently intended carefully. Once or twice in the course of the last 12 years it occurred because our company found one thing "in the back looking glass." Among the instances is actually the target "Old Soaker," where we spotted dirt cracks in the photos coming from a previous car parking posture, and without delay got back due to the fact that this was actually such a significant discovery. At other opportunities it was properly organized, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can watch in this video recording coming from as long back as Planet year 2015. Previously few preparing patterns, it is actually more of the second as our team made our means coming from Finding Peak, where our experts were on sol 4253, "Just passing through" "Russell Elapsed" as well as reaching "Kings Canyon," our drill site, which our experts achieved on sol 4257. You can easily comply with all the activity of the boring at Kings Gulch on the blog posts. It took a while-- it regularly does-- due to the fact that it's a task with several actions and examinations to finish. Our experts in fact celebrated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Gulch! Our company left on sol 4283, returned using "Basilica Peak," and are actually right now near the Discovery Pinnacle place once more. After that little hike with the past history of (some) of Inquisitiveness's hikes, particularly the very final one, let's examine today's planning.