We don't all have accounts with every provincial newspaper in the USA.

I hate signing-up to all these Hicksville publications that swear they won't sell my email address to Taiwanese spammers.

If you have a significant point to make, and are referencing someone, the acceptable way is to actually quote their words, and back it up with a link to the original source, with proper acknowledgement:-

"At a news conference Saturday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Philip Christensen, a professor of geological sciences at Arizona State University, confirmed that an instrument aboard Opportunity had detected the iron oxide hematite in the pebbles and gravel that dot the landing site.

Furthermore, Christensen, the lead scientist for the instrument, said, "I think the preliminary evidence is consistent with hematite forming at low temperatures in chemical reactions with water."

Quoted from The Charlotte Observer, Full text here.

Note that the article further states: "Scientists have no idea what the bedrock is made of.

"All I can say at the moment is what it's not," Christensen said. The instrument readings showed no hematite, no quartz, no carbonates.

For a geologist, this represents a serious problem. I can't think of any rock type that wouldn't record something on one or more of these fields. This is a flashing red light. Ignore it at your own risk !

In the same article, Christensen is also quoted as saying "It's got to be there somewhere, and if we're lucky, we'll find it".

Or perhaps we'll actually *learn* something about Mars if we stop trying to shoe-horn it into our preconceptions ? :-)