Space

Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Getting through the durable, harsh Martian terrain is actually constantly an obstacle, as well as our recent attempt to reach the "Lamb Spring" intended highlights this. Our team had actually aimed for little, distant intense rocks, yet from 50 gauges away (concerning 164 feet), the minimal resolution of our pictures created it challenging to fine-tune navigation. After an ambitious travel, the rover came uncomfortably close-- ceasing just short of these tiny vivid rocks. The stones, with their distinct pivoted and matched "surviving" design (pictured), strongly are similar to important sulfur blocks out that we have actually run into prior to. Frustratingly, although the intended rocks were right under the main wheel and accurately visible in our navigation cams, they stayed just out of reach of the wanderer's division.