As time allows, I will try and make myself available for "questioning" about possible rock varnish on Mars and its implications, changes occuring with MSR and the progressing work with the LR data along with all the other interesting aspects of Mars.

Regarding the rock varnish hypothesis, CNN wrote up the following story about it:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/07/02/mars.rocks/index.html

My paper is now copyright by the SPIE, so I cannot post it until it is published in the official SPIE Proceedings Volume. Here is the link to the SPIE Conference I presented the paper at. It was great to finally get to meet people Dr. David McKay, Dr. Richard Hoover and others in person:

http://spie.org/conferences/Programs/01/am/confs/4495.html

Sincerely

Barry E. DiGregorio