.Our team are actually back ... nearly, anyways. Today's car parking area is actually very close to where our company positioned on sol 4253, and in an area near among the previous get in touch with scientific research targets "Discovery Peak." You can go through within this blog post that a lot of the team, this writer included, was in Pasadena for our team conference when our experts were actually last in this area. That was July and also Curiosity was about to transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is an incredibly rare event and is always intended very carefully. Once or twice throughout the final 12 years it took place since our team saw something "in the rear mirror." Among the examples is the aim at "Old Soaker," where we located dirt splits in the photos from a previous parking position, and promptly returned considering that this was such a crucial discovery. At various other opportunities it was thoroughly organized, such as the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily see within this video from as long back as Earth year 2015. Over the last handful of organizing cycles, it is actually additional of the second as our experts made our means coming from Finding Epitome, where we got on sol 4253, "Simply going through" "Russell Elapsed" as well as getting to "Kings Canyon," our exercise area, which our company achieved on sol 4257. You may comply with all the action of the drilling at Kings Gulch on the blogs. It took an even though-- it constantly carries out-- because it's an activity with numerous steps and also inspections to accomplish. Our team in fact celebrated Inquisitiveness's 12th birthday at Kings Gulch! Our company left on sol 4283, came back through "Cathedral Top," and also are actually right now near the Discovery Peak place once again. After that little walkabout through the background of (some) of Inquisitiveness's hikes, especially the incredibly final one, let's look at today's program.