Space

Sols 4289-4290: From Exploration Epitome to Kings Gulch and also Back Once More

.Our team are back ... virtually, anyways. Today's car park location is actually extremely near to where our team positioned on sol 4253, and also in a place near some of the previous call science targets "Exploration Epitome." You may read within this article that the majority of the crew, this blog owner included, was in Pasadena for our team meeting when our team were final around. That was actually July and also Inquisitiveness will transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a really unusual occasion and also is always planned thoroughly. One or two times during the final 12 years it occurred considering that our team saw something "in the back mirror." Some of the instances is actually the target "Old Cloudburst," where our company located mud splits in the pictures from a previous car parking position, and also quickly got back since this was actually such an important discovery. At other times it was actually meticulously prepared, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily see within this video recording coming from as lengthy back as Planet year 2015. In the past couple of planning cycles, it's additional of the second as our experts made our means coming from Discovery Epitome, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Merely travelling through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also reaching "Kings Canyon," our exercise area, which our experts achieved on sol 4257. You can comply with all the action of the boring at Kings Canyon on the weblogs. It took an although-- it constantly does-- since it is actually an activity along with a lot of measures and examinations to accomplish. Our company in fact commemorated Interest's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Gulch! Our company departed on sol 4283, went back by means of "Cathedral Top," as well as are now near the Discovery Epitome place once again. Afterwards little bit of hike via the record of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, specifically the incredibly final one, let's check out today's plan.