.We are back ... practically, anyways. Today's car parking location is incredibly near where we parked on sol 4253, and also in a location near among the previous contact scientific research targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You may read through within this article that the majority of the crew, this writer featured, was in Pasadena for our group appointment when our team were final in this area. That was actually July and also Curiosity was about to switch 12 on Mars. Going back is actually a quite rare occasion and is actually constantly prepared thoroughly. One or two times during the course of the final 12 years it happened because we observed something "in the back mirror." One of the examples is actually the intended "Old Cloudburst," where we identified mud fractures in the images coming from a previous car park placement, and also promptly got back considering that this was actually such a necessary revelation. At various other times it was meticulously prepared, like the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may view in this particular online video from as long back as Planet year 2015. Previously couple of preparing patterns, it's additional of the last as we created our means from Invention Epitome, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Only passing through" "Russell Successfully pass" and coming to "Kings Canyon," our exercise place, which our team reached on sol 4257. You can adhere to all the action of the exploration at Kings Canyon on the blogs. It took a while-- it constantly carries out-- because it's an activity along with lots of steps and examinations to complete. Our team actually celebrated Curiosity's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Gulch! We departed on sol 4283, went back using "Cathedral Peak," as well as are actually right now near the Discovery Peak site once more. After that little walkabout through the history of (some) of Inquisitiveness's walkabouts, especially the really last one, permit's consider today's strategy.