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▲ Animats 4 hours 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?

▲lucaslazarus 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there.

▲rexskimmer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is also NASA's upcoming mission to Titan, where they plan to fly an octocopter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(Titan_space_probe)

▲Muhammad523 an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm really exited about Dragonfly, as Titan is a world not too different from ours: it gas lakes and rivers (made out of hydrocarbons, like methane), dunes and mountains

▲godshatter 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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...

... and JUICE (already on the way): https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice

There might be others, those are just what I found in a quick search.

▲tagami 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Europa clipper launched 2 years ago arrives in 2030. DAVINCI, a Venusian probe, is slated net 2033

▲hparadiz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sample return from Venus is practically impossible with our current tech.