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Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Browsing the ruggedized, unforgiving Martian landscapes is regularly a problem, and also our current effort to reach out to the "Lambs Spring" aim at highlights this. Our experts had actually aimed for little, distant intense rocks, but from fifty meters away (concerning 164 feet), the limited resolution of our images made it hard to tweak navigating. After an ambitious ride, the rover happened agonizingly close-- ceasing merely short of these little brilliant stones. The rocks, along with their distinct rounded and also pitted "enduring" pattern (visualized), highly resemble elemental sulfur blocks out that we've run into before. Frustratingly, although the aim at stones corrected under the frontal wheel and also clearly obvious in our navigation electronic cameras, they continued to be just out of scope of the wanderer's arm.