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MORE SPIRIT ROVER EVIDENCE

The above large 1st image demonstrates a small shallow pit drilled in a rock via Spirit rover's onboard RAT
(Rock Abrasion Tool) tool that is located on the rover's articulating arm as are the Mössbauer and alpha particle X-ray
spectrometers that do geological testing associated with such drillings as well as the Microscopic imager that took this
image. The most important anomalous evidence here is of course the obvious small round disk pointed with
the yellow arrow.

As you can perhaps tell by the visuals here, it seems that the RAT was pressed down at an angle cutting a bit deeper
on the left than on the right as the rounded cut line edge on the left is more defined in the rock than on the right.
I mention this because the pit and the rock will both also be a bit of issue here and will be needing some attention as
you will come to understand. Yes it would have been better if the above image offered a bit wider field of view
showing more of the outer edges of the pit but the close in shots do not allow for this in any of the images.
The shot here is taken from one side edge of the strip to the other side and encompasses all the visual available.

Before leaving this image and moving on, note the interior bottom of the shallow pit and its lumpy surface. Note that
it looks possible that this may have been a bit of a hollow pocket uncovered by the RAT once the surface cover
material was removed. The straight thin light color ridge line looks anomalous because it is so straight but it may be
nothing more than an old fracture line that was filled in by fine sediment and then hardened in place in older times
becoming harder than its softer surroundings. Now also take note of the rocky surface material on the right edge
area and how it looks. We'll be getting into that a little later.

Also you should know that this object was brought to my attention for investigation by Alberto Remelli of Verona,
Italy. Good work and well done Alberto.

As you can see in the above 2nd and 3rd split frame images providing closer views of the disk evidence only, the disk
clearly appears to have a raised relief on the surface and a visage of something or someone represented there.
You should know that the RAT cuts a nearly 5 cm or 2 inch wide pit as much as 5 mm or .2 inch deep and these i
mages are from the close in Microscopic Imager. That means that this disk object is very small and likely smaller than
a dime coin.

I suspect the RAT's metal cutter/grinding wheel kicked this object up out of its resting place in the matrix it was
embedded in. In the process, the object was likely damaged and defaced even as the rotating RAT brushes partially
cleaned its surface. In the upper right area of the disk, you can see what appear to be cut marks on the disk's edge.
This likely continued down vertically across the disk face damaging it.

Remember that the RAT cutter is designed to cut through hard rock in a clockwise rotation and so this object would
not likely escape some defacement and some matrix is likely still sticking to the object. On the other hand, note that
the object would likely have come to a quick rest when it was carried to the right drill area where the RAT was cocked upward and dropped downward away from the cutter.

This may in fact be a small coin, a medallion, a button, a small charm, or even an earring. This is obvious the front and
we can't see the back of it to check for attachment points. Take a look at the following EARTH ancient coins for a
design comparison.

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As you can see by the above 4th and 5th image examples of small ancient coins and the 6th image of ancient buttons here on Earth, raised relief and a rimless design is a typical feature of such small Earth artificial disks. The various samples I've used above were chosen for their variety and rimless designs, irregular edges, and raised relief. They demonstrate
that not all such designs depict the visage of a person even though person depictions are the most common and
I suspect most viewers will see a face raised relief in the Mars disk evidence in this reporting.

You should also think about this. This object appears to laying free on the base lumpy interior bottom of the shallow
pit. It may be laying free of its context geological material now but I doubt that it was originally this way. No doubt
this object has been spun around in this shallow pit by both the RAT cutter and both of the RAT metal brushes.
Assuming a RAT clockwise spin, it is logical that the disk dislodged from its context material bounced around to the
right side of the pit where it lodged against the raised thin ridge line bisecting the pit. The RAT more raised in this right area would have had less contact with the disk allowing to come to a rest even if a bit defaced in the tangle with the
RAT cutter head.

So it is also logical to suspect that the origin of the disk dislodged from its context material probably probably originated from the left side of the drilling pit where the RAT was pressed down cutting deeper. So now let's look closer in the
image below at the left side of the pit and see if we can see anything else interesting over there.

Sure enough in the above 7th and 8th split frame image the left side of the pit reveals some suspicious evidence the
chief of which is the disk looking object pointed out by the yellow arrow still partially buried in the matrix. Note in the
8th closer image that there may be a projection object on this disk. This may be an attachment point and so this could be a small
charm, button or earring we are seeing the backside of. In fact, it could be a pair companion to the primary
disk looking object pointed out in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd images further above.