Skip to main content

Currently Skimming:

Executive Summary
Pages 1-4

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 1...
... COMPLEX's 1994 report, An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences: 1995-2010, ~ advocated an approach to planetary studies emphasizing "hypothesizing and comprehending" rather than "cataloging and categorizing." More recently, NASA reports, including The Space Science Enterprise Strategic Plan2 and, in particular, Mission to the Solar System: Exploration and Discovery A Mission and Technology Roadmap,3 have outlined comprehensive plans for planetary exploration during the next several decades. The missions outlined in these plans are both generally consistent with the priorities outlined in the Integrated Strategy and other NRC reports,4 5 and are replete with examples of devices embodying some degree of mobility in the form of rovers, robotic arms, and the like.
From page 2...
... Reconciling these apparently contradictory priorities and minimizing their impact on the scientific productivity of mobility missions will require close cooperation between engineers and scientists. Most science objectives defined for future solar system missions call for mobile platforms, manipulative devices, and instruments with significant capabilities.
From page 3...
... Proposals to conduct field tests should be peer reviewed in advance, and the test results should be promptly published in peerreviewed journals. In addition, several more-specific recommendations derive from the six case studies: · Data downlink rates must be significantly increased, perhaps through the use of new technologies, such as the ongoing efforts to upgrade the Deep Space Network to operate in the Ka band or an eventual transition to optical communications.
From page 4...
... 4. Space Studies Board, National Research Council, "Scientific Assessment of NASA's Solar System Exploration Roadmap," letter report to Jurgen Rahe, NASA, August 23, 1996.


This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More information on Chapter Skim is available.