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Confirmation

I was browsing the PhotoJournal link JMS provides above, and found this in the caption for PIA05545:

Zooming into the picture, the rover's parachute can be seen as a tiny white dot at the far left, and just above the far crater rim is the heatsheild, visible as a tiny reflective speck.


Bingo!

I really hope that Spirit visits the heatshield, since it's so close. It must've dug a hole, and presumably that will expose a lot more of the subsurface than the rover could ever do spinning its wheels. Not to mention it'll be a great image.

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