Who's the idiot in charge over there?

A Finding, Perhaps, but Not of Mars Life - NYTimes.com: "A complementary experiment that vaporized a sample of soil detected a whiff of oxygen at high temperatures, which may have been released from the perchlorates. The presence of perchlorates would have been confirmed if the experiment had also detected chlorine, but because the scientists were not expecting perchlorates, they did not calibrate that instrument to look for chlorine."

-Wow, so there may be something on Mars that we didn't expect to find. That's just crazy! Whoa, who would have ever thought to maybe analyze the soil for everything or close to everything possible so that we can learn something from the millions of dollars used to shoot the robot up there? I mean, you'd have to be a real genius to think of that...

Seriously, I'm more shocked to find out that NASA limited its parameters on what they expected than the presence of perchlorate, because usually the truth of most things, especially extra terrestrial, turns out to be unexpected. Here's a clue NASA, get it!