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Feb 13, 2020 · This time, the Venus missions will face stiff competition from proposals to visit Io, Jupiter's large volcanic moon, and Triton, Neptune's icy moon, neither of which has been closely explored. Each proposal receives $3 million to flesh out their concept over the next year. After that, NASA plans to select two for flight.
Trident. (spacecraft) Trident is a space mission concept to the outer planets proposed in 2019 to NASA 's Discovery Program. [3][4] The concept includes flybys of Jupiter and Neptune with a focus on Neptune's largest moon Triton. In 2020, Trident was selected along with three other Discovery proposals for further study, with two expected to be ...
Feb 14, 2020 · Here’s how it works. Venus, Jupiter's supervolcanic moon Io and Neptune's big satellite Triton are in NASA's crosshairs. Those three cosmic objects are the focus of the four finalists for NASA's ...
Feb 13, 2020 · Trident would explore Triton, a unique and highly active icy moon of Neptune, to understand pathways to habitable worlds at tremendous distances from the Sun. NASA's Voyager 2 mission showed that Triton has active resurfacing - generating the second-youngest surface in the solar system - with the potential for erupting plumes and an atmosphere.
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Feb 14, 2020 · CNN —. In order to further explore our solar system, NASA has chosen four proposals for missions that would investigate Venus, Jupiter’s moon Io and Neptune’s moon Triton. If chosen, NASA ...
Feb 13, 2020 · NASA has selected four potential future missions – to Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, Neptune’s icy moon Triton, and two that would explore the atmosphere and map the surface of Venus
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Jun 3, 2021 · Composite image of Venus based on data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. The space agency is now developing two new missions to Venus, each designed to reveal hidden ...
