.We are back ... almost, anyways. Today's auto parking location is actually very near where our company stationed on sol 4253, and in a place near among the previous contact science targets "Revelation Pinnacle." You can easily read within this blog post that most of the staff, this blog owner included, resided in Pasadena for our staff conference when our team were actually final around. That was July and also Interest will turn 12 on Mars. Returning is a very unusual celebration and also is consistently planned meticulously. Once or twice throughout the last 12 years it occurred since our experts viewed something "in the back looking glass." One of the examples is actually the intended "Old Cloudburst," where our team located dirt gaps in the pictures from a previous parking position, and immediately went back considering that this was actually such a crucial revelation. At other opportunities it was actually properly considered, including the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may watch in this particular video clip from as lengthy back as The planet year 2015. Before few organizing cycles, it is actually additional of the second as we made our means coming from Discovery Epitome, where our experts performed sol 4253, "Only travelling through" "Russell Successfully pass" as well as reaching "Kings Canyon," our drill location, which our experts achieved on sol 4257. You can easily follow all the activity of the boring at Kings Gulch on the blog posts. It took an even though-- it always does-- since it's a task with several steps and also inspections to complete. Our company really commemorated Interest's 12th special day at Kings Gulch! We left on sol 4283, returned by means of "Cathedral Peak," and are actually right now near the Exploration Pinnacle area once more. After that little hike by means of the past history of (some) of Interest's hikes, especially the quite last one, allow's look at today's plan.