Solar System exploration addresses some of humanity's most fundamental questions: How and when did life form on Earth? Does life exist elsewhere in the Solar System or in the Universe? - How did the Solar System form and evolve in time? - What can the other planets teach us about the Earth? This document describes a Mission and Technology Roadmap for addressing these and other fundamental Solar System Questions. A Roadmap Development Team of scientists, engineers, educators, and technologists worked to define the next evolutionary steps in in situ exploration, sample return, and completion of the overall Solar System survey. Guidelines were to "develop aa visionary, but affordable, mission and technology development Roadmap for the exploration of the Solar System in the 2000 to 2012 timeframe." The Roadmap provides a catalog of potential flight missions. (Supporting research and technology, ground-based observations, and laboratory research, which are no less important than flight missions, are not included in this Roadmap.)


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    Title :

    Mission to the Solar System: Exploration and Discovery. A Mission and Technology Roadmap


    Contributors:
    Gulkis, S. (author) / Stetson, D. S. (author) / Stofan, E. R. (author)

    Publication date :

    1998-03-19


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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