With luck, you won't be dependent on NASA for your Mars data
With luck, Mars Express will arrive at Mars and function, and then there will be the ESA rover.
Since the French bought Dan Usikov's artificially intelligent autonomous robotic vision system, this rover should have a range of 10's of kilometers. Also, since ESA lacks the institutional bias of NASA, there's not likely to be any problem getting access to data...
Christ, these guys are still on about water at the poles, while they won't even reimage the active CO2 vents you spotted...
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