Space

Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Exploration Epitome to Kings Canyon and also Back Again

.Our experts are actually back ... nearly, anyways. Today's car parking location is incredibly near where our company positioned on sol 4253, and in an area near one of the previous contact science targets "Revelation Epitome." You may read through in this post that the majority of the staff, this blog writer consisted of, was in Pasadena for our crew conference when our team were actually final in this field. That was July as well as Inquisitiveness was about to transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is a very unusual affair as well as is regularly organized properly. One or two times throughout the final 12 years it happened given that we viewed something "in the back mirror." Some of the examples is actually the target "Old Soaker," where our team spotted mud fractures in the pictures coming from a previous car park setting, and also quickly returned since this was such a crucial exploration. At various other times it was actually properly organized, including the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may check out in this particular online video from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Before couple of planning patterns, it's even more of the latter as our company made our technique coming from Finding Epitome, where our experts got on sol 4253, "Just travelling through" "Russell Successfully pass" as well as reaching "Kings Gulch," our drill place, which our experts reached on sol 4257. You can adhere to all the activity of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the weblogs. It took an although-- it regularly does-- given that it is actually a task with many measures and also inspections to accomplish. Our team in fact commemorated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday party at Kings Canyon! Our team left on sol 4283, went back through "Cathedral Top," and are actually currently near the Exploration Epitome area again. After that little walkabout through the record of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, specifically the incredibly last one, let's take a look at today's plan.