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Sols 4289-4290: From Exploration Epitome to Kings Canyon as well as Back Once Again

.We are back ... practically, anyways. Today's parking site is extremely near to where our team stationed on sol 4253, and also in a region near one of the previous connect with science targets "Exploration Epitome." You can read through in this particular blog post that a lot of the staff, this blog owner featured, was in Pasadena for our team meeting when our team were actually final around. That was July as well as Interest was about to transform 12 on Mars. Going back is actually a quite unusual celebration and is always prepared meticulously. One or two times in the course of the last 12 years it occurred due to the fact that our team observed one thing "in the rear mirror." One of the instances is the intended "Old Cloudburst," where our company identified dirt splits in the pictures from a previous parking placement, as well as immediately went back due to the fact that this was such an essential revelation. At other times it was carefully planned, like the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you may watch in this video clip from as long back as Planet year 2015. In the past couple of planning patterns, it's even more of the last as our team made our means from Breakthrough Peak, where our experts got on sol 4253, "Only going through" "Russell Pass" as well as arriving at "Kings Gulch," our practice place, which our company achieved on sol 4257. You can follow all the action of the drilling at Kings Canyon on the blog posts. It took an even though-- it regularly carries out-- since it is actually a task along with several actions and examinations to accomplish. Our team in fact celebrated Interest's 12th special day at Kings Gulch! Our company departed on sol 4283, came back by means of "Sanctuary Peak," and also are actually now near the Revelation Epitome location once more. Afterwards little bit of hike through the record of (some) of Interest's hikes, particularly the very final one, let's consider today's program.