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Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Revelation Pinnacle to Kings Gulch as well as Back Once Again

.Our company are actually back ... practically, anyways. Today's car park site is extremely close to where we stationed on sol 4253, and in a place near some of the previous connect with science targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You can check out within this blog post that the majority of the team, this writer included, was in Pasadena for our crew meeting when our experts were final in this area. That was July and also Inquisitiveness will switch 12 on Mars. Returning is a very unusual occasion as well as is always considered very carefully. One or two times during the last 12 years it happened due to the fact that our company observed something "in the rear looking glass." One of the examples is actually the intended "Old Cloudburst," where we located dirt gaps in the images coming from a previous vehicle parking setting, as well as quickly got back given that this was actually such a significant exploration. At various other times it was thoroughly considered, including the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may watch in this particular video clip from as long back as The planet year 2015. Previously few planning patterns, it's additional of the last as our team made our method coming from Finding Peak, where our experts got on sol 4253, "Simply travelling through" "Russell Successfully pass" and reaching "Kings Gulch," our exercise site, which we met on sol 4257. You may observe all the activity of the drilling at Kings Gulch on the blog posts. It took a while-- it regularly does-- given that it's an activity along with many measures and also inspections to complete. Our experts really commemorated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday at Kings Canyon! Our team left on sol 4283, returned via "Sanctuary Top," as well as are actually right now near the Revelation Pinnacle area again. Afterwards little hike through the past of (some) of Curiosity's hikes, especially the incredibly final one, let's look at today's strategy.

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