Future Planetary Exploration

A reader pointed out that I forgot to provide links to the European Space Agency studies of possible contributions to NASA's Europa miss...

Last year, NASA’s managers invited the European Space Agency (ESA) to propose a small spacecraft to explore the Jovian system.   The sm...

Over the last few months, NASA’s managers have had the tough job of selecting a handful of proposals for new missions from an outstanding s...

For now, here's the press release on the five proposals chosen for further study.  Full blog post later tonight or tomorrow. What I le...

Sometimes planetary exploration is drama and new vistas: Seeing the most distant planet for the first time, a harrowing landing on Mars, ...