.We are back ... almost, anyways. Today's car park place is very near where our company positioned on sol 4253, and in an area near one of the previous connect with scientific research targets "Discovery Peak." You can easily go through in this particular blog that many of the crew, this writer featured, remained in Pasadena for our staff meeting when our team were actually last around. That was July and also Curiosity was about to transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is a really uncommon affair and also is actually consistently organized thoroughly. Once or twice in the course of the last 12 years it happened considering that our company viewed one thing "in the back looking glass." One of the instances is actually the target "Old Cloudburst," where we detected mud cracks in the photos from a previous car parking position, and promptly went back because this was actually such a vital exploration. At various other times it was actually meticulously prepared, like the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can view in this particular video clip coming from as long back as Earth year 2015. In the past handful of planning cycles, it's even more of the latter as our team made our means coming from Breakthrough Pinnacle, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Simply going through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also arriving at "Kings Gulch," our practice site, which our experts achieved on sol 4257. You may observe all the action of the boring at Kings Canyon on the blogs. It took an although-- it regularly carries out-- considering that it is actually a task along with numerous measures and investigations to finish. Our company in fact commemorated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday at Kings Canyon! Our experts departed on sol 4283, returned through "Sanctuary Top," and are actually now near the Discovery Epitome place once more. Afterwards little bit of walkabout through the background of (some) of Curiosity's hikes, specifically the extremely last one, permit's examine today's strategy.