Future Planetary Exploration

I’d hoped that I’d never need to write this post.  The latest news in the United States is that a poison pill known as the Sequester is lo...

Hayabusa 2 approaching asteroid 999 JU3.  All illustrations from this presentation . The last twenty years have been good for as...

Before I write my post on an upcoming planetary mission (promised in my last post ), I wanted to complete my reporting on the Outer Planet...

My apologies for having posted so infrequently lately.  I had a deadline for submitting a paper to a journal, and that consumed all my tim...

Geysers of Enceladus photographed by the Cassini spacecraft.  Credit: NASA Last week, a proposal for a sample return from Enceladu...