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Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Navigating the ruggedized, severe Martian landscapes is constantly a difficulty, and our latest try to connect with the "Sheep Spring" aim at highlights this. Our experts had actually aimed for tiny, distant vivid stones, yet from fifty meters away (about 164 feet), the limited resolution of our photos created it tough to fine-tune navigation. After an eager ride, the rover happened agonizingly close-- stopping merely short of these small bright stones. The rocks, with their unique rounded and pitted "enduring" design (envisioned), firmly are similar to elemental sulfur obstructs that our team have actually faced just before. Frustratingly, although the aim at stones corrected under the front steering wheel and plainly obvious in our navigation cameras, they stayed contemporary of reach of the vagabond's arm.