Space

Sols 4289-4290: From Revelation Epitome to Kings Canyon as well as Back Again

.Our team are back ... nearly, anyways. Today's vehicle parking location is actually really near to where we stationed on sol 4253, and in an area near among the previous call science targets "Revelation Peak." You can read through in this particular blog post that many of the team, this blog writer featured, remained in Pasadena for our staff conference when our company were final in this field. That was actually July as well as Interest was about to switch 12 on Mars. Coming back is a quite unusual occasion and is actually regularly considered very carefully. Once or twice in the course of the last 12 years it took place considering that we viewed one thing "in the rear looking glass." Some of the examples is the target "Old Cloudburst," where we detected mud fractures in the pictures coming from a previous auto parking placement, as well as quickly went back considering that this was such a significant discovery. At other times it was actually meticulously planned, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can enjoy in this particular online video coming from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Over the last few organizing cycles, it's additional of the last as our team made our method from Discovery Epitome, where our experts were on sol 4253, "Just passing through" "Russell Elapsed" and also getting to "Kings Gulch," our drill area, which our team met on sol 4257. You can adhere to all the action of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the blogs. It took an even though-- it constantly performs-- due to the fact that it is actually an activity with lots of actions as well as investigations to complete. Our company in fact commemorated Interest's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Gulch! We left on sol 4283, went back by means of "Sanctuary Peak," as well as are now near the Discovery Epitome site once more. After that little bit of hike through the record of (some) of Curiosity's hikes, especially the really final one, let's examine today's plan.