Read this document a few years ago - here's the original:

https://astroengineer.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/a-curiosity-of-spirit-full-document/

It's an engrossing read. quite long, like a short novella really. Originally posted to ATS forum where the author was ridiculed. The author, a contractor engineer for NASA, believes that NASA has secret FTL communication technology on their curiosity rover. He and another engineer slowly but surely, through an interesting process of deduction, discover a secret radio device on the rover that's not in any documentation.

He never once considers that it might be a con and the reason they get the images so quickly from Mars is that the rover is actually on earth. But the journey to him discovering the radio is very interesting and he also determines that images are removed and/or edited before the rover team receives them, who believe they are receiving them first directly from mars.

It's a great example of how cons can be done and the people, who normies always argue would have to know, simply have no fucking clue.