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Sols 4316-4317: Hunting for Sulfur

.Getting through the rugged, demanding Martian landscapes is always an obstacle, and our latest try to get to the "Sheep Spring" intended highlights this. Our experts had actually gone for small, far-off intense stones, yet coming from 50 meters away (about 164 feets), the limited settlement of our pictures made it hard to tweak navigation. After a determined drive, the vagabond happened agonizingly close-- ceasing merely except these little vivid rocks. The rocks, with their distinct rounded and pitted "weathering" pattern (imagined), definitely look like essential sulfur obstructs that we have actually encountered before. Frustratingly, although the intended stones were right under the front tire as well as precisely obvious in our navigation video cameras, they continued to be just out of range of the rover's arm.