Space

Sols 4289-4290: From Discovery Peak to Kings Canyon as well as Back Again

.We are back ... virtually, anyways. Today's car parking location is quite close to where our company parked on sol 4253, and also in a region near some of the previous contact science targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You may read through within this post that a lot of the crew, this blog owner featured, was in Pasadena for our team meeting when our experts were last in this area. That was actually July and also Inquisitiveness was about to transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a quite unusual celebration and is consistently organized thoroughly. One or two times throughout the last 12 years it occurred due to the fact that we found something "in the rear looking glass." Some of the examples is actually the aim at "Old Soaker," where our team found mud splits in the images coming from a previous car park placement, and also without delay got back given that this was actually such a significant discovery. At other opportunities it was actually meticulously considered, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily see within this video clip from as long back as Earth year 2015. Before couple of organizing patterns, it is actually more of the last as our experts created our method from Invention Peak, where we got on sol 4253, "Simply passing through" "Russell Elapsed" and getting to "Kings Canyon," our practice location, which our experts achieved on sol 4257. You can easily follow all the activity of the boring at Kings Gulch on the blog sites. It took an although-- it constantly does-- because it's a task along with lots of actions and examinations to finish. Our team actually commemorated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday party at Kings Gulch! We departed on sol 4283, came back by means of "Cathedral Top," as well as are actually now near the Discovery Pinnacle area once more. Afterwards little bit of hike via the history of (some) of Curiosity's hikes, specifically the extremely final one, let's consider today's strategy.