Space

Sols 4316-4317: Hunting for Sulfur

.Navigating the ruggedized, harsh Martian surface is actually regularly a problem, and our latest attempt to get to the "Sheep Spring" aim at highlights this. Our experts had gone for small, distant vivid rocks, however from 50 gauges away (concerning 164 feet), the restricted resolution of our photos produced it difficult to adjust navigation. After an ambitious ride, the vagabond came uncomfortably close-- quiting just except these tiny vivid stones. The rocks, along with their distinguishing pivoted and also pitted "weathering" pattern (visualized), firmly look like essential sulfur blocks that our team have actually experienced before. Frustratingly, although the intended stones corrected under the front wheel and plainly obvious in our navigation cams, they remained just out of grasp of the rover's arm.