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Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Browsing the ruggedized, severe Martian terrain is actually always a difficulty, as well as our latest attempt to connect with the "Sheep Spring" intended highlights this. Our experts had aimed for tiny, remote vivid rocks, however from 50 meters away (regarding 164 feet), the minimal settlement of our pictures produced it difficult to tweak navigation. After a determined ride, the wanderer came agonizingly close-- stopping merely except these small brilliant stones. The stones, along with their distinctive pivoted and also pitted "enduring" pattern (envisioned), firmly are similar to elemental sulfur blocks out that our experts have actually run into before. Frustratingly, although the intended rocks were right under the front tire and also accurately apparent in our navigation cams, they stayed just out of reach of the rover's division.

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