Space

Sols 4289-4290: Coming From Exploration Epitome to Kings Gulch and also Back Again

.Our team are actually back ... just about, anyways. Today's parking location is actually very near where our experts stationed on sol 4253, and in a region near among the previous get in touch with scientific research targets "Exploration Peak." You can easily go through in this blog that the majority of the team, this blogger consisted of, was in Pasadena for our staff conference when we were actually last in this field. That was actually July as well as Curiosity was about to switch 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually a quite rare event and is always planned thoroughly. One or two times during the course of the final 12 years it occurred because our company viewed something "in the back looking glass." Among the examples is actually the aim at "Old Cloudburst," where our team identified dirt fractures in the graphics coming from a previous parking posture, as well as promptly got back given that this was actually such an essential discovery. At various other opportunities it was meticulously intended, such as the "walkabout" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may see within this video coming from as long back as Planet year 2015. In the past handful of organizing patterns, it's even more of the latter as our team made our way from Breakthrough Peak, where our company were on sol 4253, "Just going through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also reaching "Kings Gulch," our drill area, which our experts met on sol 4257. You can follow all the action of the boring at Kings Gulch on the weblogs. It took an even though-- it consistently does-- since it's a task along with many steps as well as inspections to complete. Our company actually commemorated Curiosity's 12th special day at Kings Canyon! Our team left on sol 4283, came back using "Basilica Top," as well as are actually right now near the Revelation Epitome place once again. Afterwards little walkabout with the record of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, specifically the very final one, let's take a look at today's strategy.