Assessment of Solar System Exploration Programs--1991 (1991) / Chapter Skim
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6 Exobiology Programs
6 Exobiology Programs
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The recent CPBCE report The Search for Life's Origins: Progress and REPORT MENU Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution (SSB, 1990c) , lists NOTICE the following scientific goals and objectives for exobiology research: MEMBERSHIP FOREWORD SUMMARY The Cosmic History of the Biogenic Elements and Compounds CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 Understand the history of physical and chemical transformations CHAPTER 3 undergone by the biogenic elements and compounds from nucleosynthesis to CHAPTER 4 their incorporation and subsequent modification in preplanetary bodies.
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The 1990 CPBCE report listed major research recommendations, which were divided into two categories: flight opportunities and ground-based research. Studies of materials associated with hydrological activity on Mars were identified file:///C|/SSB_old_web/ssep91ch6.htm (2 of 4)
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Currently planned robotic missions and proposed human exploration missions for investigation of Mars, if properly executed, promise to make significant contributions to the goals listed in the CPBCE report. Also discussed in the 1990 report were flight opportunities to comets and asteroids, and missions to Titan and the giant outer planets.
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