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Sols 4289-4290: From Discovery Epitome to Kings Gulch and Back Again

.We are back ... practically, anyways. Today's auto parking area is incredibly near to where our experts stationed on sol 4253, and also in a location near among the previous get in touch with science targets "Exploration Peak." You can review within this article that many of the team, this blog owner featured, remained in Pasadena for our crew appointment when our company were actually last in this field. That was actually July and Interest will transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is a quite uncommon celebration as well as is regularly considered meticulously. Once or twice during the last 12 years it happened due to the fact that our company viewed something "in the back mirror." Among the instances is actually the intended "Old Cloudburst," where our experts detected mud gaps in the pictures coming from a previous auto parking posture, and also promptly returned due to the fact that this was such a significant discovery. At various other times it was actually meticulously prepared, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can enjoy within this video from as long back as Planet year 2015. Before few preparation patterns, it is actually additional of the last as our experts created our method from Discovery Epitome, where we performed sol 4253, "Merely passing through" "Russell Elapsed" as well as reaching "Kings Canyon," our practice place, which our company achieved on sol 4257. You can follow all the action of the boring at Kings Canyon on the blog posts. It took an although-- it always carries out-- given that it is actually a task along with many measures and inspections to finish. We actually commemorated Curiosity's 12th special day at Kings Gulch! Our experts departed on sol 4283, came back by means of "Basilica Peak," and also are actually now near the Revelation Peak place again. Afterwards little walkabout by means of the past history of (some) of Inquisitiveness's hikes, especially the really last one, allow's check out today's planning.

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