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Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Discovery Peak to Kings Canyon and also Back Once Again

.Our team are back ... virtually, anyways. Today's car parking site is very near to where our team stationed on sol 4253, as well as in a location near one of the previous contact science targets "Discovery Pinnacle." You can review in this particular blog post that a lot of the team, this blog owner featured, remained in Pasadena for our crew meeting when our experts were actually final around. That was actually July and Curiosity was about to transform 12 on Mars. Going back is a really unusual affair and is actually regularly prepared thoroughly. One or two times during the course of the final 12 years it occurred given that our experts found something "in the back looking glass." Some of the examples is actually the intended "Old Cloudburst," where our experts found mud fractures in the images coming from a previous auto parking placement, and quickly returned considering that this was actually such a significant discovery. At various other times it was carefully planned, such as the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may view in this particular video recording coming from as lengthy back as Planet year 2015. Previously few planning cycles, it is actually more of the last as our team made our technique from Invention Pinnacle, where our company were on sol 4253, "Just travelling through" "Russell Elapsed" and getting to "Kings Canyon," our drill site, which our experts achieved on sol 4257. You can comply with all the action of the boring at Kings Canyon on the blogs. It took an although-- it regularly carries out-- considering that it is actually an activity with several actions as well as investigations to accomplish. We really celebrated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday party at Kings Gulch! Our company left on sol 4283, returned via "Cathedral Top," and are now near the Discovery Pinnacle place again. Afterwards little bit of walkabout via the past history of (some) of Inquisitiveness's walkabouts, specifically the quite last one, permit's check out today's plan.