Space

Sols 4316-4317: Searching for Sulfur

.Browsing the ruggedized, demanding Martian surface is consistently a challenge, as well as our latest try to reach the "Lambs Spring" aim at highlights this. Our team had actually aimed for small, far-off vivid rocks, however from 50 gauges away (about 164 feet), the restricted resolution of our images produced it tough to adjust navigation. After an ambitious ride, the vagabond came agonizingly close-- quiting only short of these tiny bright rocks. The stones, along with their unique pivoted and also pitted "weathering" design (envisioned), definitely appear like elemental sulfur shuts out that our team have actually faced prior to. Frustratingly, although the aim at rocks corrected under the front steering wheel and precisely noticeable in our navigating electronic cameras, they continued to be just out of scope of the wanderer's arm.