https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resour...teractive/
From the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. This is what the scientific community would like to see done.
Excellent website. And you can download their free 782 page e-book setting out their research agenda (click download as guest) I downloaded a copy. It lays out all of the questions they would like to investigate in this time frame in much more detail. It's kind of a one-stop education in planetary science, looking at the questions they are asking and why they are asking them.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/download/26522#
The primary questions are:
1. Evolution of the Protoplanetary Disk
2. Accretion in the Outer Solar System
3. Origin of Earth and the Inner Solar System Bodies
4. Impacts and Dynamics
5. Solid Body Interiors and Surfaces
6. Solid Body Atmospheres, Exospheres, Magnetospheres and Climate
7. Giant Planet Structure and Evolution
8. Circumplanetary Systems
9. Insights from Terrestrial Life
10. Dynamic Habitability
11. Search for Life Elsewhere
12. Exoplanets
Each of these twelve topics involves multiple different questions and sub-issues.
Regarding proposed missions, they are grouped by large missions, medium missions and small missions. Missions are listed by priority.
1. Uranus Orbiter and Probe - This proposes to put an orbiter in orbit around Uranus to study its magnetic field, rings and moons, as well as putting a probe into Uranus' atmosphere.
2. Enceladus Orbilander - This proposes to fly a spacecraft through the geyser-like plumes thought to originate in a subsurface ocean on this moon of Saturn. It will analyze their chemical content looking for organics and then land on Enceladus to continue investigations there.
3. Mars Sample Return
4. Lunar Missions - They propose that these be public-private partnerships. Several companies are already designing and building uncrewed commercial lunar landers and rovers. They propose exploiting these for a variety of scientific missions. They talk about robot sample collection rovers that can collect samples for Artemis missions to return to Earth.
Human exploration and planetary defense are discussed separately.
Dr. Z, the head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate is studying it
https://twitter.com/Dr_ThomasZ/status/15...7548109828
From the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. This is what the scientific community would like to see done.
Excellent website. And you can download their free 782 page e-book setting out their research agenda (click download as guest) I downloaded a copy. It lays out all of the questions they would like to investigate in this time frame in much more detail. It's kind of a one-stop education in planetary science, looking at the questions they are asking and why they are asking them.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/download/26522#
The primary questions are:
1. Evolution of the Protoplanetary Disk
2. Accretion in the Outer Solar System
3. Origin of Earth and the Inner Solar System Bodies
4. Impacts and Dynamics
5. Solid Body Interiors and Surfaces
6. Solid Body Atmospheres, Exospheres, Magnetospheres and Climate
7. Giant Planet Structure and Evolution
8. Circumplanetary Systems
9. Insights from Terrestrial Life
10. Dynamic Habitability
11. Search for Life Elsewhere
12. Exoplanets
Each of these twelve topics involves multiple different questions and sub-issues.
Regarding proposed missions, they are grouped by large missions, medium missions and small missions. Missions are listed by priority.
1. Uranus Orbiter and Probe - This proposes to put an orbiter in orbit around Uranus to study its magnetic field, rings and moons, as well as putting a probe into Uranus' atmosphere.
2. Enceladus Orbilander - This proposes to fly a spacecraft through the geyser-like plumes thought to originate in a subsurface ocean on this moon of Saturn. It will analyze their chemical content looking for organics and then land on Enceladus to continue investigations there.
3. Mars Sample Return
4. Lunar Missions - They propose that these be public-private partnerships. Several companies are already designing and building uncrewed commercial lunar landers and rovers. They propose exploiting these for a variety of scientific missions. They talk about robot sample collection rovers that can collect samples for Artemis missions to return to Earth.
Human exploration and planetary defense are discussed separately.
Dr. Z, the head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate is studying it
https://twitter.com/Dr_ThomasZ/status/15...7548109828