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

.Our team are actually back ... practically, anyways. Today's auto parking area is very near to where our team stationed on sol 4253, as well as in a location near among the previous contact scientific research targets "Exploration Pinnacle." You may read within this article that the majority of the team, this blogger featured, was in Pasadena for our team meeting when our experts were actually final in this field. That was July as well as Interest will switch 12 on Mars. Returning is actually a quite rare event as well as is consistently prepared thoroughly. Once or twice during the last 12 years it happened considering that our experts observed something "in the back mirror." Some of the examples is the aim at "Old Cloudburst," where our company detected dirt splits in the photos coming from a previous car parking placement, as well as quickly got back given that this was actually such a significant exploration. At other times it was very carefully intended, including the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may check out in this particular video clip coming from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Before handful of preparation patterns, it's even more of the second as we created our method from Finding Pinnacle, where our team got on sol 4253, "Merely going through" "Russell Successfully pass" and getting to "Kings Gulch," our exercise site, which our team met on sol 4257. You can easily comply with all the action of the exploration at Kings Gulch on the blogs. It took an even though-- it constantly performs-- given that it's an activity along with numerous steps as well as inspections to complete. Our experts actually celebrated Curiosity's 12th birthday party at Kings Canyon! We left on sol 4283, went back via "Basilica Peak," and also are actually right now near the Revelation Peak site again. After that little bit of walkabout by means of the history of (some) of Interest's walkabouts, specifically the extremely last one, permit's examine today's planning.

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