It was wasted anyway:
"Glory was launched on a three-year mission to analyze how airborne particles affect Earth's climate. ... sun's effect on climate change."
This way is just more obvious.
There’s another angle to think about here. I’m a little disappointed this thing crashed, because if it was meant to legitimately study the effect of the sun on our climate, it could have objectively flattened the anthropogenic global warming arguments. Now, it’s business-as-usual. I bet there are some GW scientists just a little bit relieved...