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It's important in science to not sugar coat scientific conclusions as you might sugar coat PR communications (ie. how can we present this in the best light to get funding for the next trip) The objective was to demonstrate an ability to land in a useful condition so the next probe could land with experiments using this technology. Everything else is an in-process metric. The probe crashed and didn't land.