.We are back ... practically, anyways. Today's vehicle parking site is actually very near to where we parked on sol 4253, as well as in a place near one of the previous get in touch with science targets "Exploration Epitome." You may read in this blog that a lot of the staff, this blog owner included, resided in Pasadena for our crew meeting when our experts were actually last in this field. That was July as well as Inquisitiveness was about to turn 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a really uncommon occasion as well as is actually regularly prepared carefully. One or two times during the course of the final 12 years it occurred due to the fact that we found one thing "in the rear looking glass." Among the instances is actually the intended "Old Cloudburst," where our experts found dirt splits in the images from a previous parking position, and quickly went back due to the fact that this was actually such a crucial discovery. At various other times it was actually very carefully planned, including the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily enjoy in this video coming from as long back as Earth year 2015. Before handful of preparation cycles, it is actually more of the second as our company created our way from Discovery Peak, where our team performed sol 4253, "Just going through" "Russell Elapsed" and also arriving at "Kings Gulch," our practice location, which we achieved on sol 4257. You can easily adhere to all the action of the exploration at Kings Canyon on the blog posts. It took an although-- it constantly performs-- because it's an activity along with several measures and also examinations to complete. Our team in fact commemorated Curiosity's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Canyon! We departed on sol 4283, came back by means of "Cathedral Peak," as well as are actually now near the Exploration Pinnacle place again. Afterwards little walkabout via the record of (some) of Interest's hikes, particularly the really last one, permit's consider today's planning.