Space

Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Navigating the durable, harsh Martian surface is actually regularly a challenge, and our latest effort to reach the "Sheep Creek" aim at highlights this. Our team had gone for small, far-off bright stones, but coming from fifty meters away (concerning 164 feet), the restricted resolution of our images produced it hard to tweak navigating. After a determined travel, the vagabond came agonizingly close-- ceasing merely short of these tiny brilliant rocks. The rocks, with their unique rounded and also countered "weathering" design (pictured), firmly are similar to essential sulfur blocks that we have actually run into prior to. Frustratingly, although the intended rocks corrected under the front tire and plainly visible in our navigation cameras, they stayed contemporary of reach of the vagabond's arm.