JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission www.science.org 35 points by Muhammad523 2 days ago
Animats 20 minutes ago Nice. These missions that tell us the basics about objects in the Solar System are more useful than, say, re-visiting the moon or Mars.Venus and Europa could use some attention. Anything underway? tagami 4 minutes ago Europa clipper launched 2 years ago arrives in 2030. DAVINCI, a Venusian probe, is slated net 2033 godshatter 52 seconds ago Apparently five Venus missions (DAVINCI, VERITAS, Envision, Venus Life Finder, and Venus Orbiter) all in the next five years or so: https://www.space.com/astronomy/venus/these-5-venus-missions...For Europa, Europa Clipper Mission (already on the way): https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/mission-time...There might be others, those are just what I found in a quick search.... and JUICE (already on the way): https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice
tagami 4 minutes ago Europa clipper launched 2 years ago arrives in 2030. DAVINCI, a Venusian probe, is slated net 2033
godshatter 52 seconds ago Apparently five Venus missions (DAVINCI, VERITAS, Envision, Venus Life Finder, and Venus Orbiter) all in the next five years or so: https://www.space.com/astronomy/venus/these-5-venus-missions...For Europa, Europa Clipper Mission (already on the way): https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/mission-time...There might be others, those are just what I found in a quick search.... and JUICE (already on the way): https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice
TGower 1 hour ago JAXA does great work, they also publish the highest resolution open access global surface elevation model. Really impressive for a country with about 1/10th the GDP of the US.
dvh 1 hour ago I hope they make some photos of Phobos monolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith
hbarka 51 minutes ago I wonder how this mission compares in scale to the JAXA Hayabusa comet interceptor done twenty years ago.
Nice. These missions that tell us the basics about objects in the Solar System are more useful than, say, re-visiting the moon or Mars.
Venus and Europa could use some attention. Anything underway?
Europa clipper launched 2 years ago arrives in 2030. DAVINCI, a Venusian probe, is slated net 2033
Apparently five Venus missions (DAVINCI, VERITAS, Envision, Venus Life Finder, and Venus Orbiter) all in the next five years or so: https://www.space.com/astronomy/venus/these-5-venus-missions...
For Europa, Europa Clipper Mission (already on the way): https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/mission-time...
There might be others, those are just what I found in a quick search.
... and JUICE (already on the way): https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice
JAXA does great work, they also publish the highest resolution open access global surface elevation model. Really impressive for a country with about 1/10th the GDP of the US.
I hope they make some photos of Phobos monolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith
I wonder how this mission compares in scale to the JAXA Hayabusa comet interceptor done twenty years ago.