There was clearly something behind the rover that they were trying to hide.
Such as ... what?
It could be a person. It could be a piece of supporting equipment for the project that they were using. It could be anything they were trying to hide.
This Tom Bishop guy has some comprehension issues.
Image PIA16174 is not photoshopped. It was taken with a different camera, the Mastcam.
Image PIA16239 is a composite of 55 images taken with the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI).
It is you who has reading comprehension issues. PIA16174 is Image 2 in the OP. I didn't say it was photoshopped. It was the different example. The image you showed from the 55 images is the same as Image 2 and was clearly photoshopped to end up in its final state. It is not an image overlap issue. They
manipulated the rocks and scenery.
There was clearly something behind the rover that they were trying to hide.
The rover allegedly just stuck its arm out to a stationary position and took 55 photos that were stitched together side-by-side. This image manipulation is deliberate, and goes beyond a simple "overlap" error.
No, it stuck its arm out and took 55 pictures from a variety of positions and angles. Or do all 55 of these pictures look like they were taken from a stationary position?
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=84&camera=MAHLI
NASA explains how they did it right here:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20121211b.htmlThe robot stuck its arm out and then angled it to take pictures of the scene around it. It's not a bunch of pictures that they happened to make a selfie out of. It was a
choreographed automated routine. NASA claims in the above link that they practiced the
automated routine on the ground.
There is a video of the arm movement here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw4Y0jouKGcThe craft is not moving between locations, and the pictures are not taken from widely different spots that a selfie happened to be created from. The selfie arm is basically just rotating in the same general area for its automated mosaic.
They supposedly had the selfie method worked out in the lab:
Did NASA then need to go and photoshop things around the lab? No.
An automated choreographed routine to make a mosaic that requires one to go in afterwards and Photoshop rocks and scenery around? Funny.
The photoshopped rocks and scenery clearly suggests that there was something that needed to be hidden.