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Epilogue: A Glimpse at the Future of Solar System Exploration
Pages 211-212

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... lament telescopic discoveries have opened up new frontiers for understanding processes in the primitive solar system' for example, in the outer solar system beyond Neptune' for which vigorous recormaissmee by robotic spacecraft is the most appropriate strategy. As ~ result eon~mpor~ priorities reflect ~ complex mix of mission types' ~ehnologiea1 demands' md research objectives, all win high scientific merit but win widely differing technical readiness md expeet~ions for completion.
From page 212...
... It also requires small missions, whether Discovery, Mars Scout or mission extensions' that em provide focused ways of responding quickly to discoveries made or provide vehicles for en~epreneuria1 creativity md new scientific ideas. The SSE Surveys proposed Kuiper Belt-Pluto Explorer may be the last grew recor~E~aissmee mission within solar system exploration md, if PA One Ells ~ story ~ all, it is ~~ we are rapidly entering ~ phase of large- md medium-class missions operating on He surfaces of planets or within Heir atmospheres md plasma environment that will utilize technologies' yet to be practically developed' thy will enable long sojourns, power advanced instrumentation' md return samples to Earn.


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