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Sols 4316-4317: Searching for Sulfur

.Getting through the ruggedized, severe Martian terrain is constantly a difficulty, as well as our recent try to get to the "Lamb Creek" intended highlights this. Our experts had actually aimed for small, distant intense rocks, yet coming from fifty gauges away (regarding 164 feet), the limited resolution of our pictures created it hard to adjust navigation. After an ambitious drive, the rover came uncomfortably close-- stopping only except these little brilliant stones. The stones, along with their distinctive rounded and also matched "enduring" pattern (pictured), strongly look like essential sulfur shuts out that we have actually encountered before. Frustratingly, although the target rocks were right under the main tire and also accurately noticeable in our navigating cams, they remained contemporary of grasp of the wanderer's arm.