Peter A. Gersten
Attorney at Law
P.O. Box 2443
Sedona, Arizona 86339
[Phone number omitted--FACETS]

June 14, 2001

Donald L. Savage
Public Affairs Officer
Office of Space Science
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Headquarters
Washington DC 20546-0001

Re: Your letter dated May 30, 2001

Dear Mr. Savage:

With respect to the above-referenced letter, though you state that Dr. Weiler's letter to me contained "an error regarding the date of public availability of the latest images of the Mars Cydonia 'face' feature" you do not address the cause of that error.

The FACETS' membership, based upon Dr. Weiler's statement in his May 11th letter that the new images had been posted on a public web site on April 19th, squandered a considerable number of hours searching for those images and Dr. Malin's commentary. Thus my client would like an explanation as to why the images weren't posted until May 24th, more than a month later and almost two weeks after Dr. Weiler's letter. I would also like to know when the error was detected and why I wasn't immediately notified in order to avoid unnecessary confusion.

Further, it is not clear whether you are responding to my May 21st letter to Dr. Weiler or simply stating the obvious, almost a week after the images were actually posted. If in response to my letter, could you please also address my client's request for a meeting.

Finally, I think that the above circumstance should also warrant an apology from NASA. Possibly an assurance that a similar type of error would not happen again. Unfortunately I find neither in your letter.

Sincerely,

Peter A. Gersten

Cc: David Jinks, FACETS
Sen. John McCain

 

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