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Sols 4316-4317: Searching for Sulfur

.Browsing the rugged, unforgiving Martian terrain is constantly a difficulty, as well as our recent try to reach the "Lambs Creek" target highlights this. Our company had actually pursued little, distant intense rocks, yet coming from fifty meters away (concerning 164 feet), the limited resolution of our images made it challenging to make improvements navigation. After an eager drive, the rover happened agonizingly close-- ceasing just except these little vivid rocks. The rocks, with their distinguishing pivoted as well as matched "weathering" pattern (imagined), strongly resemble elemental sulfur blocks that our company've run into just before. Frustratingly, although the intended stones were right under the main tire and plainly visible in our navigation video cameras, they remained contemporary of reach of the rover's arm.