[Vo]:Strange object in soil on Mars

[Horace Heffner]

There is a shiny coil like object protruding from the soil that looks  
like a piece of shielded cable or shielded tubing.  It is immediately  
to the right of the pad.  If the coil were attached to the pad it  
should have been blown away from the pad by the landing rockets which  
uncovered the ice or rock to the right and above the coil.

http://jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/images.php?fileID=11004

Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/