.Our experts are back ... almost, anyways. Today's auto parking site is really near to where our company stationed on sol 4253, as well as in a location near some of the previous connect with scientific research targets "Exploration Pinnacle." You can go through in this particular blog post that most of the staff, this blog writer consisted of, was in Pasadena for our staff conference when we were last around. That was July as well as Curiosity will turn 12 on Mars. Coming back is a very rare event and is actually regularly planned meticulously. One or two times in the course of the last 12 years it happened because our company observed something "in the rear mirror." Among the instances is the aim at "Old Cloudburst," where we found mud fractures in the graphics from a previous vehicle parking position, and without delay returned due to the fact that this was such a crucial exploration. At various other times it was carefully organized, like the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may check out in this particular video coming from as lengthy back as The planet year 2015. Previously handful of preparation cycles, it is actually more of the last as our company made our technique from Finding Pinnacle, where our company performed sol 4253, "Just passing through" "Russell Elapsed" as well as reaching "Kings Canyon," our practice area, which we achieved on sol 4257. You can follow all the action of the drilling at Kings Gulch on the weblogs. It took an even though-- it consistently carries out-- since it is actually a task along with numerous steps and also inspections to accomplish. Our company really celebrated Curiosity's 12th birthday party at Kings Gulch! Our team departed on sol 4283, went back via "Cathedral Peak," and are actually now near the Exploration Peak site once more. After that little walkabout through the history of (some) of Inquisitiveness's walkabouts, specifically the incredibly final one, allow's take a look at today's plan.