Space

Sols 4316-4317: Hunting for Sulfur

.Navigating the ruggedized, severe Martian surface is actually constantly an obstacle, and also our recent attempt to connect with the "Sheep Spring" aim at highlights this. Our team had actually gone for tiny, remote intense stones, yet coming from 50 meters away (regarding 164 feets), the restricted settlement of our images produced it hard to make improvements navigating. After an enthusiastic travel, the vagabond happened uncomfortably close-- ceasing simply short of these little brilliant stones. The rocks, along with their distinctive rounded as well as pitted "surviving" pattern (envisioned), definitely resemble essential sulfur blocks that we have actually experienced just before. Frustratingly, although the intended stones corrected under the main steering wheel and also precisely visible in our navigating cameras, they remained contemporary of range of the vagabond's arm.