Hi HOrtI tend to agree with you re. yo...

Hi HOrt

I tend to agree with you re. your #40 but usually with those press conferences announcing major developments, like finding grey hematite or water of crystallization in salts at meridiani, there are reports of undercurrents of great excitement at NASA.

There is nothing so this time around. The oblique identification of water was accorded a relatively low key announcement, given that discovering water ice near the surface appears to have been one of the main objectives of the whole exercise. Why this lack of excitement if they have mars shattering news under wraps to report that would require the presence of the big gun Griffin?

Anyhow I agree with you that we are unlikely to see the science data and raw OM and AFM images before they are thoroughly worked over by the Officials. But this might be just SCience as usual.

winston