Nobody can tell you ...
that the average joe is an idiot because asses like you and Steve Squyres and Hap McSween treat them like idiots, in fact you train them to be idiots. You reap what you sow. Oops, that's biology.
It's the dumbing down of America. Now, what was the reason for witholding all the spectroscopy? Surely it can't be because the rocks are all randomly distributed ordinary basalts? Maybe it just takes them several months to convert a spectrogram into a spectrograph.