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Sols 4316-4317: Looking for Sulfur

.Getting through the rugged, unforgiving Martian terrain is always a difficulty, and also our latest effort to reach the "Sheep Creek" target highlights this. We had actually gone for tiny, remote bright rocks, but coming from 50 gauges away (regarding 164 feet), the restricted resolution of our images created it complicated to adjust navigation. After an enthusiastic travel, the wanderer came uncomfortably close-- ceasing only short of these little vivid stones. The stones, with their distinct pivoted and also countered "weathering" design (pictured), highly appear like elemental sulfur shuts out that we've come across prior to. Frustratingly, although the target rocks corrected under the frontal wheel and plainly visible in our navigation cams, they stayed contemporary of reach of the vagabond's arm.

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