the reason why I saw 3 is because under reagan bush and clinton were low. But people forget under clinton at the end of his presidency, the internet boom tanked, the 1994 crime bill which incarecared more prisoners and their policies which some affected george bush. the 20 trillion is rounded off.
Yup Nasa puts out each pic at 70% Jpeg which mean they are not giving the public 100% quality and most of the pictures are not color, even though they could release the color ones but they rarely do. Its actually a close up of this http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00710/mcam/0710MR0030150070402501E01_DXXX.jpg