.Our experts are actually back ... almost, anyways. Today's auto parking location is actually really near where our team stationed on sol 4253, and in a region near one of the previous call scientific research targets "Discovery Pinnacle." You can easily read in this particular article that a lot of the staff, this blog owner included, remained in Pasadena for our staff conference when our team were actually last in this field. That was July and Inquisitiveness will transform 12 on Mars. Returning is a quite rare occasion and is regularly considered very carefully. Once or twice throughout the last 12 years it occurred considering that we saw something "in the back looking glass." One of the examples is the intended "Old Cloudburst," where we identified mud splits in the pictures coming from a previous vehicle parking placement, as well as immediately went back since this was actually such a necessary discovery. At other times it was actually meticulously planned, including the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may view in this particular online video from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Over the last handful of preparation cycles, it's even more of the last as our team made our method from Breakthrough Peak, where our team got on sol 4253, "Simply travelling through" "Russell Pass" and reaching "Kings Canyon," our practice location, which our team achieved on sol 4257. You can easily follow all the action of the exploration at Kings Canyon on the blogs. It took a while-- it constantly does-- due to the fact that it's an activity along with many steps as well as inspections to complete. We actually celebrated Curiosity's 12th birthday at Kings Canyon! Our company left on sol 4283, returned using "Cathedral Top," and also are right now near the Exploration Peak place once more. After that little walkabout by means of the past history of (some) of Inquisitiveness's hikes, specifically the really final one, permit's examine today's program.