Space

Sols 4316-4317: Hunting for Sulfur

.Getting through the ruggedized, unforgiving Martian surface is actually regularly an obstacle, and our latest effort to get to the "Sheep Spring" aim at highlights this. We had tried for small, remote brilliant stones, however coming from fifty gauges away (concerning 164 feets), the minimal settlement of our pictures produced it hard to make improvements navigation. After a determined drive, the wanderer came agonizingly close-- ceasing merely short of these small brilliant stones. The stones, with their unique rounded and countered "weathering" pattern (visualized), strongly resemble important sulfur blocks out that our team have actually faced prior to. Frustratingly, although the target rocks were right under the main wheel as well as plainly apparent in our navigation video cameras, they stayed contemporary of scope of the rover's arm.

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