.Our team are actually back ... almost, anyways. Today's auto parking place is really near where we parked on sol 4253, and also in a place near some of the previous contact scientific research targets "Exploration Epitome." You may read through within this article that a lot of the group, this blog writer featured, resided in Pasadena for our staff conference when we were actually final in this field. That was actually July and also Inquisitiveness was about to transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a really rare celebration and also is actually always planned meticulously. One or two times in the course of the final 12 years it occurred due to the fact that our experts observed something "in the back mirror." Among the examples is the target "Old Cloudburst," where our team spotted mud cracks in the photos coming from a previous car parking position, and also quickly got back given that this was such an essential exploration. At other opportunities it was actually carefully organized, like the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may check out within this online video from as lengthy back as The planet year 2015. Before couple of preparation patterns, it's additional of the last as our team created our way from Discovery Pinnacle, where our company performed sol 4253, "Merely going through" "Russell Pass" as well as coming to "Kings Gulch," our drill place, which our company reached on sol 4257. You may comply with all the activity of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the blog sites. It took an although-- it regularly carries out-- considering that it is actually an activity along with a lot of steps and examinations to accomplish. We actually celebrated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday party at Kings Gulch! Our company left on sol 4283, returned through "Cathedral Peak," and are actually now near the Exploration Epitome place again. After that little hike by means of the past of (some) of Curiosity's hikes, specifically the extremely last one, permit's take a look at today's strategy.