As early as tonight, the NASA team will upload repeating commands designed to "wring a few additional weather measurements" out of Phoenix by placing it in "terminal science mode, " meaning that the lander will repeat the same sequence of actions overandoveragain, every day before shutting down for 19 hours.
American consumers often wonder why, if they ring their telephone company and are handed from one call centre to another, they always have to repeat their contact information and describe the problem all overagain.
Controversies aside, the mood in Rio de Janeiro was overwhelmingly one of celebration and, as if to make the point, they intend to repeat the party all overagain on Monday night with another six samba schools.