I heard them saying that before the crash though, so it's not just trying to downplay the failure. From what I understand Schiaparelli could only do a relativel

I heard them saying that before the crash though, so it's not just trying to downplay the failure. From what I understand Schiaparelli could only do a relatively small amount of experiments and only for a handful of days before the battery ran out. Still, even if it's "just" a test run it means they need to correct their copy by 2020. I hope they'll be able to figure out what went wrong and why.