Posthuman Blues

I managed to find two distinctly different versions of a single Spirit rover image on JPL's website, bearing out the thesis of my previous Mars installment. It would appear that JPL essentially bases their Mars image releases on aesthetic considerations; I have yet to read anything to indicate that they are using Spirit's on-board color calibration target.

And I can only shake my head in embarrassment at the "Enterprise Mission's" new claim that the Spirit site is littered with alien machinery. As friend Kurt Jonach points out, "Enterprise" appears to want to lay claim to all possible conspiracy theories lest someone else break their long-running monopoly.