I couldn't be thrilled in any way for this mission. I'm sorry, but there are some pretty good satelites around mars as we speak, and other then the Shadar, it seems like this mission bring nothing to the table other then "newer pictures". I know of course that they probably do a ton of other stuff, but on the surface I seems like nothing new.

It's a snack between the rovers and the Phoenix mission, which I think they could have invested diffrently. I'm sorry but my priorities aren't with the whole "race to Mars", and I certainly don't like the whole hype the media makes of finding water all the time on that planet, and it looks like this satelite will just do the same as the rovers are doing right now: find even more water. By now you'd think that the whole planet is immerged in the stuff.