.Our team are back ... virtually, anyways. Today's vehicle parking site is actually quite near to where our company stationed on sol 4253, and also in an area near one of the previous contact science targets "Discovery Epitome." You may go through in this post that a lot of the group, this blog writer featured, remained in Pasadena for our team appointment when we were actually last in this field. That was July and Interest will transform 12 on Mars. Going back is a really rare event and is actually consistently prepared very carefully. Once or twice in the course of the final 12 years it occurred since our team viewed something "in the back looking glass." One of the examples is the target "Old Soaker," where we located dirt cracks in the photos coming from a previous vehicle parking setting, as well as quickly went back given that this was actually such an essential exploration. At other opportunities it was very carefully intended, including the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can enjoy in this particular online video from as lengthy back as Planet year 2015. In the past couple of preparing cycles, it is actually additional of the second as we made our means coming from Invention Pinnacle, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Only passing through" "Russell Pass" and also getting to "Kings Canyon," our drill site, which our team achieved on sol 4257. You can easily comply with all the action of the exploration at Kings Gulch on the blog sites. It took an even though-- it constantly performs-- since it is actually an activity along with a lot of measures and inspections to complete. Our team really commemorated Interest's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Canyon! Our team departed on sol 4283, came back via "Basilica Top," as well as are now near the Exploration Epitome place again. After that little bit of hike via the past of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, specifically the extremely last one, let's consider today's strategy.