«But past experience with NASA's
planetary missions tells us this isn't true — we always learn something new from visiting a place directly.
Not exact matches
«In a future
mission, we could fly through those plumes and
tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a
planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work,
told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.
«She has reached any number of «first woman to...» milestones, including principal investigator on a NASA
planetary mission and head of an MIT science department,» but, Zuber
told ScienceInsider, «I've never realized I was first until after the fact.
The probe sent back more data than giddy
planetary scientists had ever had before, but the thrill of the
mission came less from what it
told them about Mercury than from the inkling it gave them of what they had yet to learn.
NASA plans to spend $ 10 million over the next year to further develop the
mission concept, Jim Green, NASA's
planetary science division director,
told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday.
«There has been a decade of investment on the Europa
mission,» NASA manager Curt Niebur
told planetary scientists last March in a packed hotel ballroom in Bethesda, Maryland, shortly after the announcement.
«I think it is too early to eulogize Cassini on the occasion of its death, as incineration is five months away,» Jonathan Lunine, director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and
Planetary Science and a longtime member of the Cassini
mission team,
told USA Today.
«That would be the most fascinating thing we could discover,»
mission lead scientist Dante Lauretta, a
planetary scientist with the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, told a NASA science advisory group in
planetary scientist with the University of Arizona's Lunar and
Planetary Laboratory, told a NASA science advisory group in
Planetary Laboratory,
told a NASA science advisory group in January.