Space

Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Browsing the ruggedized, severe Martian landscapes is always a challenge, and also our current effort to reach the "Sheep Creek" aim at highlights this. Our company had actually pursued little, far-off bright stones, yet from 50 gauges away (regarding 164 feets), the limited settlement of our pictures made it difficult to make improvements navigating. After an ambitious drive, the rover happened uncomfortably close-- stopping only short of these tiny intense rocks. The stones, with their distinguishing rounded and also pitted "surviving" pattern (envisioned), firmly look like elemental sulfur blocks out that we have actually experienced prior to. Frustratingly, although the target stones were right under the frontal wheel and clearly apparent in our navigation video cameras, they stayed just out of reach of the rover's division.