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12-21-2017, 12:21 PM
NASA mission finalists would take us to Saturn's moon or a comet
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If you had your pick, where in the solar system would you send a spacecraft? To an asteroid? Venus? Maybe one of Saturn's icy moons?
Well, NASA has some ideas about where it wants to go next.*
The space agency just announced the two finalists for one of its next big missions out into the solar system, and there are two destinations in mind: a comet or Titan, Saturn's weird, icy moon.
SEE ALSO: Now you can own NASA's Golden Record on vinyl (http://mashable.com/2017/11/27/nasa-golden-record-on-vinyl/)
“These are tantalizing investigations that seek to answer some of the biggest questions in our solar system today," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invests-in-concept-development-for-missions-to-comet-saturn-moon-titan). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/nasa-missions-titan-and-a-comet/)
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If you had your pick, where in the solar system would you send a spacecraft? To an asteroid? Venus? Maybe one of Saturn's icy moons?
Well, NASA has some ideas about where it wants to go next.*
The space agency just announced the two finalists for one of its next big missions out into the solar system, and there are two destinations in mind: a comet or Titan, Saturn's weird, icy moon.
SEE ALSO: Now you can own NASA's Golden Record on vinyl (http://mashable.com/2017/11/27/nasa-golden-record-on-vinyl/)
“These are tantalizing investigations that seek to answer some of the biggest questions in our solar system today," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invests-in-concept-development-for-missions-to-comet-saturn-moon-titan). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/nasa-missions-titan-and-a-comet/)
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