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As any Doctor will tell you, foreign objects in a foreign place may give one a rash, fever, headache or just a plain old allergic reaction.
Perhaps Mars is rejecting the metallic substances of landing pads and shovels with their pointed probes and this is the first time we can examine such contact and we are now 'perplexed'?
The OM is a powerful scope for such minute examinations. NASA/JPL/UA may have 'overstepped' the requirement for data interpretation.
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