The Next NASA Discovery Mission - Where To Go?
Where do you think we should go? 4 teams have reached the final selection round for the next 2 NASA Discovery missions (“small” planetary science missions costing no more than $450 million, intended to complement NASA’s larger Solar System exploration missions).
Venus, our engimatic neighbor? We should definitely check to make sure the protomolecule hasn't set up house there, right? Two of the finalists would go to Venus, one to study the surface, the other the atmosphere.
Io, a Jupiter moon with the most frenetic volcanic activity in the solar system?
Or Triton, the former dwarf planet captured by Neptune, with its frozen surface and possibly not-so-frozen oceanic interior?
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