Dfrank
Your posts are entirely comprised of speculation.
About NASA and their motives and behavior...
About the photo and what's in it...

Lets go to a website and LOOK at ALL the photos they make readily available. This is just ONE photo!
You are being unreasonable, selfish, biased and assuming much more than logic or evidence can back up.

Maybe you should step back and consider EVERYTHING that has been said by everyone in this thread
And the fact that other forums got "mean" and WHY they did.

Im sure you're a nice person. If we worked together Im sure we would get along. Im not attacking your character. Im attacking your tunnel vision and closed-mindedness. You reject logic and evidence in favor of one simple photo.
NASA took the photo and released it quite willingly to the public. Im sure it was analyzed and re-analyzed. With MUCH MORE data than just what the eye suggests.
I honestly am at a loss as to why you keep denying that.

ETA: I personally have no problem with the idea of there being water on Mars. At all.
I look forward to new discoveries. But that doesnt allow me to speculate wildly. These guys studied years of schooling and worked hard to get their jobs. I wish I had that job. They aren't goofy guys that cant tell when they see water. They arent hiding ANYTHING by making the photo public are they?
They KNOW what they are looking at.
If one of my customers acted to me like you are acting to NASA, Id storm off the jobsite in a huff.