.Our company are actually back ... virtually, anyways. Today's car parking location is actually extremely near to where our company stationed on sol 4253, and also in a location near among the previous get in touch with scientific research targets "Discovery Epitome." You may read within this post that most of the team, this blogger featured, was in Pasadena for our staff meeting when we were final in this area. That was actually July and Interest was about to switch 12 on Mars. Returning is a quite unusual celebration as well as is regularly considered meticulously. Once or twice throughout the last 12 years it took place because our company found something "in the rear mirror." One of the examples is actually the aim at "Old Soaker," where we spotted dirt splits in the images from a previous auto parking position, and promptly returned because this was actually such a significant exploration. At various other opportunities it was actually thoroughly planned, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can enjoy in this video recording coming from as lengthy back as Planet year 2015. In the past few planning patterns, it's more of the latter as we created our method from Breakthrough Epitome, where our company performed sol 4253, "Simply passing through" "Russell Elapsed" and coming to "Kings Canyon," our drill location, which we reached on sol 4257. You can comply with all the activity of the exploration at Kings Canyon on the blog sites. It took an even though-- it consistently does-- considering that it is actually a task with numerous steps and examinations to accomplish. Our company really commemorated Curiosity's 12th birthday at Kings Canyon! Our company departed on sol 4283, went back through "Sanctuary Peak," and also are actually right now near the Discovery Epitome place again. Afterwards little hike through the record of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, specifically the very final one, let's check out today's strategy.