Icarus wrote:


The thingummyjig was gone before the rover even left the lander,
so it couldn't have squished it.

Take a look:

http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/jr/object.html



Let us assume that it was lightweight debris from the lander, and that
the wind blew it away...because if the wind _didn't_ blow it away, and
it _wasn't_ lightweight debris from the lander, when it left under it's
own means of propulsion, and that would imply that the hunt for life on
Mars has been rather more successful then anyone imagined it would be.
This is one of those transients like the Viking lander team were looking
for.
Those two pictures are going to arose more conspiracy theories by far
than the "face on Mars" ever did.

Pat