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Sols 4316-4317: Hunting for Sulfur

.Navigating the ruggedized, harsh Martian landscapes is always a difficulty, as well as our recent effort to reach the "Lambs Spring" target highlights this. We had actually tried for tiny, distant intense rocks, but coming from 50 meters away (regarding 164 feets), the restricted resolution of our photos made it hard to tweak navigation. After an enthusiastic travel, the rover happened uncomfortably close-- stopping just except these little intense rocks. The stones, along with their distinctive rounded and matched "weathering" pattern (visualized), highly are similar to important sulfur shuts out that our team've faced prior to. Frustratingly, although the intended rocks were right under the front wheel and plainly visible in our navigation electronic cameras, they continued to be contemporary of grasp of the vagabond's arm.

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