Unfortunately, there's so much uncertainty as to the exact crash positions (and for the earlier Russian Landers) that there will need to be a HUGE data acquisition campaign - displacing genuine science targets. SO the end result will likely be a compromise. A reasonable search will be made, but it'll still be only to about the 50:50 level of finding these wrecks.
What, after all, will an image of the wreck tell us, other than that it crashed? It's unlikely to tell us which any more than we have already surmised about the likely sequence of events. We have already learned the lesson from those wrecks - INCLUDE TELEMETRY. Then you know where in the EDL sequence things went wrong and can work to correct the defective component/routine/assumption.
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to more releases of science info.
Looks like LPSC will be a "must-go" conference next March...
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re: fantastic stuff - now for Beagle and MPL
