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Sols 4316-4317: Seeking for Sulfur

.Getting through the durable, unforgiving Martian surface is actually always a challenge, and our recent attempt to get to the "Lambs Spring" intended highlights this. Our experts had aimed for little, remote bright stones, yet coming from fifty meters away (concerning 164 feets), the minimal settlement of our images produced it tough to fine-tune navigating. After a determined travel, the rover happened uncomfortably close-- stopping just short of these little brilliant stones. The stones, along with their distinctive pivoted and matched "weathering" pattern (visualized), firmly are similar to essential sulfur blocks that we have actually encountered just before. Frustratingly, although the aim at stones were right under the main tire and precisely apparent in our navigating cameras, they stayed just out of scope of the wanderer's arm.