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nephihaha 2 days ago

It's partly because these missions take so long to pay off. The Jovian and Saturnian moons are definitely targets for landers, as is some of the asteroid belt. There is a significant signal delay as well, meaning nothing would be done in real time.

Martian rovers can have a twenty minute signal delay one way. Meaning a return signal takes over forty minutes. If it isn't behind the Sun. By the time probes get to Jupiter, the delay on a return signal can be the best part of two hours. That can increase even more going to and from Saturn.

Increase that by even more for Uranus and Neptune.