Space

Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Revelation Pinnacle to Kings Canyon and Back Once Again

.We are actually back ... almost, anyways. Today's auto parking location is actually extremely near to where we stationed on sol 4253, as well as in a region near among the previous call scientific research targets "Revelation Epitome." You can read through within this article that a lot of the group, this writer consisted of, was in Pasadena for our group meeting when our experts were actually last in this field. That was July and also Interest will switch 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually an incredibly unusual occasion and also is actually constantly intended thoroughly. One or two times during the final 12 years it occurred due to the fact that we viewed one thing "in the rear looking glass." Some of the instances is actually the target "Old Cloudburst," where our experts spotted mud splits in the images from a previous auto parking setting, as well as immediately got back due to the fact that this was actually such a necessary exploration. At other times it was actually meticulously intended, including the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may see in this video recording coming from as long back as The planet year 2015. Before few planning cycles, it's more of the last as our experts created our technique coming from Invention Peak, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Simply passing through" "Russell Pass" and also reaching "Kings Canyon," our exercise area, which our experts achieved on sol 4257. You may comply with all the action of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the blog sites. It took a while-- it constantly does-- considering that it's a task along with numerous actions and also examinations to complete. Our experts in fact commemorated Inquisitiveness's 12th special day at Kings Gulch! We left on sol 4283, returned using "Basilica Peak," and also are now near the Revelation Peak place again. After that little walkabout through the history of (some) of Curiosity's hikes, particularly the really last one, allow's examine today's strategy.