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HOUSTON, TEXAS — A committee of the National Research Council is insisting that the cost of two of the largest planetary missions it is recommending for NASA in the coming decade must be slashed or they can't fly.

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The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system's largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.

NASA may have to draw money from other Mars missions as well as the agency's larger planetary exploration programme to pay for the MSL delays, but did not specify which projects would be affected.

The cost - capped New Frontiers program, with $ 850 million set out for the mission and about $ 150 million for the launch, is the largest planetary exploration line that NASA opens to outside competition and leadership.

That pace promises to increase as NASA's Kepler mission carries out its multiyear survey of a large patch of stars; the campaign has already located several hundred planetary candidates for follow - up study and confirmation.

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«Robotic sample return missions can return higher science value samples by selecting from a larger population of asteroids, and can be accomplished at significantly less cost... Support of ARRM with planetary science resources is not appropriate.»

Starting from the Earth's orbital speed of 30 kilometers per second (km / s), the change in velocity (delta - v) the spacecraft must make to enter into a Hohmann transfer orbit that passes near Mercury is large compared to other planetary missions.

NASA's Juno mission is rewriting what planetary researchers thought they knew about Jupiter, the largest and most massive planet in our Solar System:...

A third mission, called PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), proposed using a number of small, optically fast, wide - field telescopes to detect and characterize a large number of close - by exoplanetary systems.

The Cassini - Huygens mission revealed that Titan's surface is quite young by planetary standards, with only a few large impact craters observed.

Tim Pyle, Kepler Mission, NASA Larger and jumbo illustrations The planetary candidate KOI 377.03 (or Kepler - 9d), a super-Earth orbits too close to its host star to be potentially habitable (more).