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Sols 4316-4317: Hunting for Sulfur

.Getting through the durable, severe Martian terrain is actually regularly a problem, and our latest try to reach the "Sheep Spring" aim at highlights this. Our experts had actually pursued small, far-off bright stones, however from fifty meters away (regarding 164 feets), the limited resolution of our photos produced it hard to adjust navigation. After a determined drive, the vagabond came uncomfortably close-- stopping only short of these tiny brilliant stones. The stones, with their distinctive rounded and pitted "surviving" design (envisioned), definitely look like important sulfur shuts out that our company've experienced prior to. Frustratingly, although the aim at stones corrected under the front wheel and plainly visible in our navigating cameras, they remained contemporary of range of the vagabond's arm.