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

.Our team are back ... nearly, anyways. Today's parking site is actually quite close to where our experts stationed on sol 4253, and also in a location near one of the previous connect with scientific research targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You may review in this blog that a lot of the group, this blog owner consisted of, was in Pasadena for our team appointment when our company were last in this area. That was actually July and Curiosity will transform 12 on Mars. Returning is actually an extremely rare occasion and is always intended very carefully. Once or twice during the course of the last 12 years it happened due to the fact that our experts saw one thing "in the rear looking glass." Among the examples is the target "Old Cloudburst," where we located dirt fractures in the images coming from a previous vehicle parking posture, and quickly went back given that this was actually such a vital exploration. At various other times it was actually very carefully intended, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may watch in this video recording from as long back as Planet year 2015. Before few organizing patterns, it's additional of the second as our experts made our technique coming from Invention Epitome, where our experts got on sol 4253, "Just going through" "Russell Pass" and also getting to "Kings Gulch," our practice location, which our team achieved on sol 4257. You can easily comply with all the activity of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the weblogs. It took a while-- it regularly carries out-- due to the fact that it is actually a task along with a lot of actions as well as inspections to accomplish. Our experts really commemorated Interest's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Canyon! Our experts departed on sol 4283, came back via "Cathedral Top," as well as are actually now near the Revelation Peak site once more. After that little walkabout with the record of (some) of Interest's hikes, particularly the very last one, let's look at today's plan.

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