I was just reading the New York TIme article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/science/space/31lander.html?ref=us

Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona, the mission’s principal investigator, said it would be nice to watch winter develop through the lander’s instruments. “But that’s gravy,” Mr. Smith said. “We got what we came for.”

And I thought: Bastard! How can you be so callous?!

Then I remembered that he might actually be one of the tweeters...