.Our experts are back ... virtually, anyways. Today's parking place is quite close to where our team stationed on sol 4253, and also in a place near among the previous call scientific research targets "Exploration Peak." You can easily review within this post that a lot of the staff, this blogger included, remained in Pasadena for our team meeting when our team were final around. That was July and also Curiosity will switch 12 on Mars. Returning is an incredibly unusual occasion as well as is regularly considered properly. One or two times in the course of the last 12 years it happened because our experts observed something "in the back mirror." One of the instances is actually the target "Old Soaker," where our team detected dirt splits in the images from a previous car parking posture, as well as immediately went back since this was actually such an important revelation. At other times it was carefully planned, such as the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may enjoy in this particular video clip coming from as long back as Planet year 2015. Previously couple of preparation patterns, it's even more of the last as our company created our means from Discovery Peak, where our team were on sol 4253, "Merely passing through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also reaching "Kings Canyon," our practice place, which we met on sol 4257. You can easily comply with all the action of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the blog sites. It took an although-- it consistently does-- because it is actually an activity along with numerous actions and also investigations to complete. We really commemorated Interest's 12th birthday at Kings Gulch! Our experts left on sol 4283, went back by means of "Basilica Top," and are actually right now near the Exploration Peak area once more. After that little hike with the background of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, specifically the very last one, permit's look at today's plan.