Billions of dollars, and this is what they plan? (Score 2, Insightful)

Methinks I smell the sickly scent of a public relations campaign. I mean, are we really supposed to believe, that, even with their huge budget, NASA is incapable of finding a good landing site on Mars? They already landed on the planet a few times, they know places it is possible. For a manned mission it may be a bit more complicated, with water (or ice) needed, and perhaps a few other things, but seriously, a website to decide this sort of stuff? They are showing, what was it, 44,000 images, to scientists who may find (at a guess) a few thousand possible landing sites. I am supposed to believe a NASA bigwig is going to say to his dedicated team, "Hold everything, we've just had an email from someone who works at a high school in Belgium. He reckons slide 38,233 is a good spot. That's the breakthrough we were looking for."
Yeah, right!