<font color="yellow">"bonzelite : but image 7-A does not. is this the rover platform being photographed by the rover?"</font><br /><br />Actually, this thing is no rock <img src="/images/icons/shocked.gif" /> <br />It is extra-martian !!!! <br />Really .... <br />It is .... <br />*gasp* <br />from a planet known as "the pale blue dot" <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br />Seriously now, this is Spirit's heatshield photographed at the opposite side of Bonneville crater. <br />No wonder it does not look like a rock to some martian image analysts <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>On the 66th martian day, or sol, of its mission, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit finished a drive and sent back this navigation camera panorama showing "Bonneville" crater and the rocky plains surrounding it. The rover's solar panels are visible in the foreground, and the to right, the Columbia Hills complex. Zooming into the picture, the rover's parachute can be seen as a tiny white dot at the far left, <font color="orange">and just above the far crater rim is the heatsheild, visible as a tiny reflective speck</font><p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />
JPL panoramic image <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>I feel better than James Brown.</em> </div>