Space

Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Getting through the ruggedized, unforgiving Martian surface is actually constantly an obstacle, and also our current effort to connect with the "Sheep Spring" aim at highlights this. Our experts had gone for little, far-off bright stones, but from fifty gauges away (about 164 feet), the limited resolution of our pictures made it tough to fine-tune navigation. After an ambitious drive, the vagabond happened agonizingly close-- ceasing simply short of these small intense rocks. The rocks, with their distinctive pivoted and pitted "enduring" pattern (pictured), firmly resemble elemental sulfur blocks out that we've encountered before. Frustratingly, although the target stones were right under the frontal tire as well as clearly noticeable in our navigating video cameras, they remained just out of scope of the vagabond's division.