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3 Exploration of the Outer Planets
Pages 11-14

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... SCIENCE OBJECTIVES The Saturn System REPORT MENU NOTICE The highest priority for outer planet exploration in the next decade is MEMBERSHIP intensive study of Saturn -- the planet, satellites, rings, and magnetosphere -- as a FOREWORD system. SUMMARY CHAPTER 1 Specifically, the recommended exploration and intensive study of the CHAPTER 2 Saturn system includes the following objectives: CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 Titan's atmosphere -- measure the composition, structure, and CHAPTER 6 circulation of Titan's atmosphere, and characterize the atmosphere-surface CHAPTER 7 interaction.
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... Planetology of the Galilean satellites and Titan -- surface composition and physical properties, seismic activity, heat flow, and where applicable, atmospheric composition and meteorology. Inner Jovian system -- density, composition, and energy of magnetospheric particles; large-scale structure, rotation, and time-dependent phenomena in the Io torus, and relation to Io and other satellites, orbiting gas and plasma, auroral activity on Jupiter, and electromagnetic emissions.
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... and European scientific communities were recently selected, and instrument development continues. The report's second major recommendation involved post-1995 objectives for the exploration and intensive study of the Uranus and Neptune systems, the planetology of the Galilean satellites and Titan, and the inner Jovian system, whose implementation depends on the results of the Voyager and Galileo missions.
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... This area of technology development has likewise not received significant support. Last update 12/13/00 at 8:20 am Site managed by Anne Simmons, Space Studies Board file:///C|/SSB_old_web/ssep91ch3.htm (4 of 5)
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