In an influential report that comes out once a decade, researchers propose a space mission to Uranus and a lander to Saturn’s moon, Enceladus.
spacecraft in 2015, it makes sense to zoom in on other worlds too, Cabrol argues. “The solar system is such a beautiful natural lab. It’s like cooking with different ingredients and different temperatures, you come up with very different things,” she says.
Nevertheless, with so many popular destinations, there are always disagreements about where to direct spacecraft resources. Some researchers in the field have previously pushed for different candidates and missions.
The report also recommends investing more in planetary defense, or making sure that near-Earth asteroids and comets won’t end up on a collision course with our own world. Planetary scientists naturally don’t want a
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