notable conspiracy theories:
The Coverup:
I found the
real NASA panorama [jpl.nasa.gov] and sure enough, by blowing up that small section in the full uncompressed TIFF image and applying similar contrast/levels filters in photoshop, I was able to acheive the same results (although not as completely overexagerated as in that last frame).
"But Dan, obviously thats only a bug in the stitching of the mosiac shot!"
Oh what a
perfect excuse... make a stitched mosiac, and anything you need to cover up is just a problem in the stitching...
riiiight
The slotted rock:

"Hey Dan, I think its time to put away that tin-foil hat."
Hey! just TRY and tell me that "forces" like "water" or "wind" could carve not only a perflectly flat face onto a rock, but also a perfectly rectangular hole which
obviously was used for attaching the rock to something at one point in time.
more [jpl.nasa.gov] and
the gallery [jpl.nasa.gov]
And finally...

er, whoops... wrong link... hold on a sec...
[EDIT]
[EDIT EDIT]
*Angry rant deleted due to the fact that now I have a cooler head...*
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