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Executive Summary
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... In Editions NASA asked for identification of the top-level seientif~e questions to guide its ongoing program md ~ prioritized list of the mod promising avenues for flight investigations md supporting ground-based activities. To accomplish this task, the Solar System Exploration Surveys (~SE Surveys)
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... The second theme addresses the reality thy life requires orgasm materials arid volatiles, notably, liquid wear. These marries originally condensed in the outer reaches of ~e solar nebula arid were Lear delivered to the ply aboard orgar~ic-rich comets md asteroids.
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... What does the solar system tell us Rout the development Id evolution of extrasolar planetary systems' arid vim vers:~9 Comet Surfed Sample Return Kuiper Belt-Pluto Explorer South Pole-Aitker~ ~ shirt Sample Retum Jupiter polar Orbiter with Probes Kuiper Belt-Pluto Explorer South Pole -Aitker1 ~ asir1 Sample Retum Comet Surfed Sample Return Jupiter polar Orbiter with Probes Kuiper Belt-Pluto Explorer Comet Surfed S:~mple Return Cassini Exterlded Venus Ir1 S itu Explorer hears Upper Atmosphere Orbiter Europa Geophysical Explorer h] ars Scierloe L ~ oratory hears Sample Retum hears Sample Retum Venus Ir1 S itu Explorer h]
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... The SSE Survey supports NASA,~ current Senior Renew prowess for deciding Me scientif~e merits of ~ propmed minion extension anal recommend that early planning he (lone to provide adequate funding of minion extensions particularly Flagship minions and minions with international partners+ Because resources are finite the SSE Survey prioritized all new flight missions within each category Hong with arty associated activities. To assess priorities in ~e selection of particular missions, it used the following criteria: scientific merit, ``opportunity,,' arid ~chnologica1 readiness.
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... s upper atmosphere Ad plasma erlvirorlmerrt Medium (< $~50 million ~~e (~$~50 million hears Scierloe Laboratory hears Long-Lived L=~r Network h] ore Sample Retum A Lear to carry out sophi~ic~ed surfam ob~rv~ions Ad to validate sample return ~ theologies A globally diskibu~d suite of 1~ Art equipped to make comprehensive me :~sureme~s of the plmet )
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... It will also advance the technologies required for the sample return from Venus expected in the following decade. Comet Surface Sample Chum The Comet Surface Sample Return (CYST)
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... Mars Upper Atmosphere Orbiter (MAO) is ~ small mission dedicated to studies of Marks upper Ionosphere Ad plasma environment.
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... Technology Di~tiom A significant investment in advanced Ethnology development is also news for the recommended new md future flight missions to Star succeed. Table ES.3 identifies ~ number of important areas in which Ethnology development is appropriate.
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... The SSE Survey encourages NASA to continue the integration of astrobiology science objective with those of other splice science disciplines+ Astrohiologi~l expertise should he enlled upon when identifying optimal minion strategies and design requirement for Hight-yunlif~ed instrument that nddr~s key questions in astrobiology and planetary wienee+ Ground-based ~lemopes have teem responsible for severe major discoveries in solar system exploration during ~e past decade. Moreover' Marty flight missions are "really Inhered as ~ result of extensive ground-based charac~riz~ion of their targets.
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... 3. Board ore Physics Ad Astronomy Ad Span Studies Board' N~ior~1 Research Cour~cil' Astronomy a~A~troph~ ~~ ~e N MtEe~' N~ior~1 Academy Press' W:~shir~or~> Deco.' 2001.


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