.We are actually back ... nearly, anyways. Today's auto parking location is very near where our team positioned on sol 4253, and in a region near among the previous connect with science targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You may check out in this blog that most of the team, this blog owner included, resided in Pasadena for our crew appointment when our team were final around. That was actually July and also Curiosity was about to transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is actually an extremely rare occasion as well as is constantly planned very carefully. Once or twice in the course of the final 12 years it happened because our experts saw one thing "in the back mirror." Some of the examples is actually the target "Old Cloudburst," where our company detected dirt gaps in the graphics coming from a previous car parking posture, and immediately got back given that this was such a vital discovery. At other opportunities it was actually carefully prepared, such as the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may watch in this video clip coming from as long back as Planet year 2015. Previously few preparing patterns, it's additional of the second as our team made our technique coming from Finding Peak, where we got on sol 4253, "Just going through" "Russell Successfully pass" and also arriving at "Kings Gulch," our practice area, which our team achieved on sol 4257. You can easily follow all the activity of the drilling at Kings Gulch on the blog sites. It took a while-- it consistently does-- due to the fact that it's a task along with many actions as well as inspections to complete. Our team actually celebrated Interest's 12th birthday celebration at Kings Canyon! Our company departed on sol 4283, went back using "Sanctuary Top," as well as are now near the Discovery Pinnacle place once more. After that little walkabout through the past of (some) of Inquisitiveness's walkabouts, specifically the incredibly final one, let's look at today's strategy.