.We are actually back ... virtually, anyways. Today's vehicle parking place is actually really near to where our company stationed on sol 4253, and also in a region near one of the previous contact scientific research targets "Discovery Pinnacle." You can review within this blog post that many of the group, this blog writer included, remained in Pasadena for our crew conference when our experts were final in this area. That was actually July as well as Curiosity will switch 12 on Mars. Returning is actually a very rare affair and is actually constantly planned meticulously. Once or twice throughout the last 12 years it took place considering that our team viewed one thing "in the rear looking glass." One of the examples is actually the aim at "Old Cloudburst," where our company found dirt fractures in the images from a previous vehicle parking placement, and promptly went back because this was actually such a necessary exploration. At other opportunities it was actually thoroughly planned, including the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can see in this particular online video from as lengthy back as The planet year 2015. Previously few organizing cycles, it's additional of the second as our experts created our technique from Invention Peak, where our experts got on sol 4253, "Just travelling through" "Russell Successfully pass" as well as reaching "Kings Canyon," our drill place, which we reached on sol 4257. You can easily comply with all the activity of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the blogging sites. It took an although-- it constantly performs-- due to the fact that it is actually an activity with many measures and examinations to finish. Our team in fact celebrated Curiosity's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Canyon! We departed on sol 4283, came back by means of "Cathedral Peak," and are actually currently near the Discovery Peak location once again. After that little hike with the history of (some) of Interest's hikes, particularly the quite last one, permit's take a look at today's planning.