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Sols 4316-4317: Hunting for Sulfur

.Browsing the durable, demanding Martian terrain is actually regularly a difficulty, and also our current try to connect with the "Sheep Creek" intended highlights this. Our company had gone for small, far-off bright rocks, but from 50 gauges away (regarding 164 feet), the minimal resolution of our images made it complicated to fine-tune navigation. After an ambitious ride, the wanderer happened uncomfortably close-- ceasing merely except these tiny vivid rocks. The rocks, along with their distinct rounded and matched "surviving" pattern (visualized), definitely resemble important sulfur obstructs that our experts have actually come across before. Frustratingly, although the target stones corrected under the front steering wheel and also plainly visible in our navigation cameras, they stayed just out of reach of the rover's arm.