No worry: New Mars synthesis should occur next year
"And there may be a grain or two of value in it for whatever the new Mars sysnthesis is, in the next decade or two"
Actually, if Mars Express is successful, the new Mars synthesis will occur right after it begins to return its data - and as that will be hard DATA, and not the usual watery Mars BS that NASA churns out, you should have no worry: relief is in sight
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