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Sols 4289-4290: From Exploration Pinnacle to Kings Canyon and Back Once More

.We are actually back ... nearly, anyways. Today's vehicle parking site is incredibly near to where we parked on sol 4253, and also in a region near one of the previous connect with science targets "Discovery Pinnacle." You may check out in this blog that the majority of the group, this writer included, resided in Pasadena for our crew meeting when our company were final in this field. That was actually July and also Inquisitiveness was about to transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a very uncommon celebration as well as is actually constantly organized properly. Once or twice throughout the final 12 years it took place because our company observed one thing "in the back mirror." One of the instances is actually the target "Old Soaker," where we detected mud cracks in the photos coming from a previous vehicle parking posture, and without delay got back considering that this was such a significant revelation. At other times it was very carefully prepared, like the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may view in this online video coming from as long back as Planet year 2015. Over the last handful of organizing patterns, it's more of the last as we made our means coming from Breakthrough Pinnacle, where our team got on sol 4253, "Just travelling through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also coming to "Kings Canyon," our practice location, which our company achieved on sol 4257. You may follow all the action of the boring at Kings Canyon on the blog posts. It took an even though-- it always does-- because it is actually a task along with several actions and investigations to finish. Our experts really commemorated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday at Kings Canyon! Our company departed on sol 4283, came back using "Basilica Top," and also are actually right now near the Revelation Pinnacle site once more. After that little bit of hike via the past of (some) of Inquisitiveness's walkabouts, particularly the extremely final one, allow's look at today's plan.