Winston, I am sure every member of the Phoenix team has noticed the "cottony" nature of the soil clumps in the OM.
But it seems that the all the scientists on the team want to be a Maxwell and not "just" a Faraday.
And surely you know old boy, it is not proper ( sniff, sniff ) to notice anything on Mars until there is a plausible "they're just rocks" reason for the observation.