Thanks for the info on the match and ejection ages. The PR releases must have been misleading... I'm sure that the dust buries the impact ejecta, and in a geologically short time at that - It strikes me that maybe what happened what burial and exhumation...

I myself really haven't have the time to examine any of this in depth, though I'm sure that this and other items are going tobe a hot topic of discussion in the months ahead, and I intend to be ready...

As for US crater counts, Clark Chapman managed to get some money for the automatic computer crater counts, (machine vision systems once again), but as seen from his teams recent work product, unfortunately they lack the technical ability to do them.

Those abilities lie at MIT, Carnegie Mellon and a few other places. Either money needs to be sent to Chapman to hire those abilities, or money will have to be spent on new starts made elsewhere.

Either course requires money, and the new counts need to be made pretty quickly.

Ah well... Mars Express continues to return its images of Mars craters, and the European counts proceed...

5 more months

ep

PS - The typos are irritating