...these images are so obviously synthetic carpetting...MARK R took the original photos in somebody's office but I have as yet to remember where as yet...

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_news/items/grb011211/index.shtml

The general idea being that NASA had got a bit too 'fantastic' and 'carried away' with their fake imagery...so time to go back to a more 'boring' and 1950s feel....