[UCANSEE2]

Truth is a very elusive creature, no matter which planet is involved.

[dr_lew]

“What is truth? Nothing but a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.” - The Fried-Monster

[dr_lew]

Wow. It's worse than I thought. I got CURIOUS about how they patched that in, and started looking at it, and I noticed that there are gross disjunctures ( is that a word ? ) in the interactive panoroma. Here is a humble B&W circular NAVCAM panorama of the same location from sol 166 that I happen to have lying around :-)

Notice that the drill spot is to the left of center, in front of the "..URIOSITY" label on the front panel. ( Please don't confuse the breaks in this PTgui generated image with the sort of photoshopping that is evident in the APOD. ) In the APOD this whole area is drawn over and patched in front of the "diving board" or "duckbill", as you will.

I'm impressed by the artfulness of it, but chagrined that this would be passed off as any kind of scientific representation.