It's hard to believe that somebody would make this kind of mistake on the
Mars Exploration website, but yeah, the flash thing totally doesn't do anything when you click one of the "click to view" something links. This shows how even when loads of money is thrown at a web design job, massive problems can still slip through the cracks, without proper testing. In this case, the cheapest of usability tests or a heuristic audit would have revealed the problem.
The moral of the story?
Don't make it slick if you can't make it click.
UPDATE: Sometime between 2011 and 2013, this problem was solved, because the interactive thing I was referring to was removed. It was replaced with a virtual tour that's so ghetto, you'd have to travel with it back in time at least a decade to find someone who'd be impressed by it. But it does seem to work.
