Space

Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Navigating the rugged, harsh Martian landscapes is actually always a challenge, as well as our current attempt to reach out to the "Sheep Spring" intended highlights this. Our team had actually aimed for small, remote bright rocks, but coming from fifty meters away (regarding 164 feet), the restricted resolution of our photos produced it hard to make improvements navigation. After an enthusiastic travel, the rover came uncomfortably close-- stopping merely short of these small intense stones. The rocks, with their distinctive pivoted and also countered "weathering" pattern (pictured), highly appear like important sulfur blocks that our team've come across before. Frustratingly, although the intended rocks were right under the frontal steering wheel and clearly noticeable in our navigation video cameras, they remained contemporary of reach of the wanderer's division.