Sorry qmantoo, I've been out of it for a while or I would have commented right away. I agree it does look like plant life. Do you remember a thread I started on here called rover gets in a scuffle? http://alienanomalies.activeboard.com/t37518347/rover-gets-in-a-scuffle/. There was a lot of strange activity in the last days of spirit. I was sure then, and still am, that there was something there messing with it. Look at the fur on top of this thing from sol 2148. Almost looks like eye sockets half buried in the sand below the fur or hair. Or maybe some lichen on a rock? http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/2/n/2148/2N317057667EFFB2GXP1605R0M6.JPG
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I dont know why no-one has commented on this, but anyway, in case you dont bellieve me, I have found further evidence of a creeper-like plant with suckers on the end - similar to the example on the left hand side of the final resting place of Spirit shown above in my first post.These Earth creeper-like plants go up the side of your house and attach themselves to the bricks or stone with suckers.
This one is much smaller but it still is similar. As you can see 'they' have tried to mask it with black lines.
This may be boring and has been discussed probably many times in the past, but I still think there are clues in the last images Spirit was able to send back to us. Clues as to who or what is on Mars and the kind of mission they mounted to dismantle or investigate our robot.
There are many images of these last few days and weeks which may still be worth studying.
For example in this one from the exploratorium series of MER images, I see a stick-like structure on the right hand side to the left of the wheel and between the two large stones. It even has a shadow at the bottom end to show it is off the ground.
In the left of the image at the bottom left hand corner, there is a trident-shaped (3-prong) structure which appears to be like a root of a tree.
And... because I am a conspiracy nut, I suspect that the shadow of the robotic arm is a fake and is there to cover up some details in the ground we are not supposed to notice.
So what do you think?
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