Space

Sols 4316-4317: Seeking for Sulfur

.Navigating the durable, harsh Martian surface is actually constantly a problem, and also our latest try to get to the "Sheep Creek" target highlights this. Our experts had actually pursued tiny, far-off vivid stones, however from fifty gauges away (regarding 164 feets), the limited settlement of our images produced it difficult to fine-tune navigating. After a determined travel, the rover came uncomfortably close-- quiting merely short of these small brilliant rocks. The stones, with their unique pivoted and also pitted "surviving" design (envisioned), firmly look like important sulfur shuts out that our team've come across before. Frustratingly, although the aim at rocks corrected under the front steering wheel as well as precisely apparent in our navigating cameras, they continued to be contemporary of reach of the wanderer's division.