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Sols 4316-4317: Searching for Sulfur

.Getting through the rugged, demanding Martian landscapes is always a challenge, and also our current effort to get to the "Sheep Spring" target highlights this. Our experts had actually gone for tiny, distant vivid rocks, however coming from fifty gauges away (about 164 feets), the restricted settlement of our photos made it complicated to adjust navigation. After a determined ride, the wanderer happened agonizingly close-- quiting only short of these tiny intense rocks. The stones, with their distinctive rounded as well as matched "surviving" design (visualized), strongly resemble important sulfur shuts out that we have actually faced before. Frustratingly, although the intended rocks were right under the front wheel and precisely obvious in our navigating video cameras, they remained just out of scope of the vagabond's arm.