Space

Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Discovery Epitome to Kings Gulch and also Back Once Again

.Our team are actually back ... just about, anyways. Today's vehicle parking place is actually really close to where we parked on sol 4253, as well as in a location near one of the previous connect with science targets "Revelation Epitome." You can review within this blog that most of the group, this writer included, resided in Pasadena for our team appointment when our team were actually last in this area. That was July and also Curiosity was about to transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is a really uncommon occasion and also is consistently planned meticulously. One or two times in the course of the final 12 years it happened since we saw something "in the back looking glass." Some of the examples is the target "Old Soaker," where our experts spotted dirt cracks in the photos coming from a previous vehicle parking setting, and also quickly returned considering that this was such a crucial discovery. At various other times it was actually meticulously planned, such as the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily enjoy within this online video from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Before handful of organizing cycles, it's more of the last as we made our way coming from Discovery Epitome, where our experts got on sol 4253, "Simply passing through" "Russell Successfully pass" as well as reaching "Kings Gulch," our exercise location, which we met on sol 4257. You can follow all the action of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the weblogs. It took a while-- it always carries out-- given that it's a task with a lot of measures as well as examinations to finish. Our team in fact commemorated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Gulch! Our company departed on sol 4283, came back using "Basilica Peak," and also are currently near the Revelation Epitome location once more. Afterwards little bit of walkabout through the record of (some) of Interest's walkabouts, specifically the really final one, let's take a look at today's strategy.