.We are back ... just about, anyways. Today's auto parking area is very near to where our experts positioned on sol 4253, and also in a location near one of the previous contact science targets "Discovery Peak." You can go through in this blog post that a lot of the crew, this blog writer featured, remained in Pasadena for our crew appointment when our team were actually final in this field. That was actually July and also Curiosity will transform 12 on Mars. Coming back is a quite rare occasion as well as is actually regularly intended thoroughly. Once or twice throughout the last 12 years it happened since we observed one thing "in the back mirror." One of the instances is actually the target "Old Cloudburst," where our company detected dirt cracks in the photos from a previous auto parking position, and promptly returned given that this was actually such a necessary discovery. At other times it was carefully intended, like the "hike" at "Pink Cliffs," which you can easily view in this video recording from as lengthy back as Earth year 2015. Over the last few preparation cycles, it's additional of the last as our experts created our means coming from Discovery Epitome, where our experts got on sol 4253, "Merely passing through" "Russell Elapsed" as well as coming to "Kings Gulch," our practice place, which our team reached on sol 4257. You can observe all the activity of the drilling at Kings Gulch on the blog posts. It took an even though-- it constantly performs-- because it is actually a task with many measures as well as investigations to complete. We in fact celebrated Curiosity's 12th birthday party at Kings Gulch! Our team left on sol 4283, returned through "Cathedral Peak," and also are actually currently near the Revelation Epitome area again. After that little bit of hike by means of the record of (some) of Curiosity's walkabouts, particularly the really final one, let's take a look at today's planning.