No. The joke is that NASA and ESA have lost their monopoly on this sort of information and are having to scramble to avoid looking like idiots.
Funny I didn't notice any "scrambling".
Tell me, does the Indian Mars mission have a lander to take the same kind of on-the-ground images?
No, it doesn't.
So tell us how you came to the conspiracy theory that the probe represents some kind of conspiracy - one where hundreds if not thousands of scientists would have to keep quiet?
Even by the low standards of the internet, your pet theory is pretty feeble. It's right up there with the claim that we can't see Niburu approaching because it's coming from the south.
If you want to see someone who needs to avoid looking like an idiot, by all means buy a mirror.