P008
Concepts for Future Planetary Science Missions
Concepts for Future Planetary Science Missions
Session ID#: 78051
Session Description:
The first decades of the 21st century have proved an exciting time for planetary science missions. Through the New Horizons missions, objects of the Kuiper Belt are finally being explored, while other missions have revealed previously unknown surfaces of planets, moons, asteroids and comets ranging from Titan to Mercury, and from Ceres to Comet 67P. The next several decades promise to be just as dramatic, with first explorations of many more asteroids, comets and moons, a return to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, and in situ exploration of surfaces and sub-surfaces. The landscape of planetary missions has also changed, as new countries have begun to send missions to deep space destinations, while NASA has revitalized its mission portfolio with competed mission of all sizes, from CubeSats to New Frontiers. This session solicits innovative concepts for future planetary science missions of all sizes, types, and from all countries and institutions.
Index Terms:
5494 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5794 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
6094 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Morgan L Cable, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners: Conor A Nixon1, Melissa G Trainer1 and Charles Hibbitts2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison: Morgan L Cable, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
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