Space

Sols 4316-4317: Seeking for Sulfur

.Getting through the ruggedized, demanding Martian surface is regularly a challenge, and our latest attempt to get to the "Lambs Creek" aim at highlights this. Our company had aimed for tiny, distant vivid rocks, yet coming from 50 gauges away (regarding 164 feets), the minimal settlement of our photos created it difficult to tweak navigation. After an enthusiastic drive, the vagabond came uncomfortably close-- stopping just short of these tiny vivid rocks. The rocks, with their distinguishing pivoted and countered "surviving" pattern (pictured), definitely appear like elemental sulfur blocks that our team've encountered just before. Frustratingly, although the aim at stones were right under the frontal steering wheel and also precisely apparent in our navigating cams, they continued to be contemporary of scope of the rover's division.