Update to Strategy for Exploration of the Inner Planets (1990) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A
Appendix A
Pages 33-43
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SCIENTIFIC GOALS, SEQUENCE, AND STRATEGY Levels of Investigation, Goals, and Mission Techniques In order to provide more specific guidance to achieve the general strategy goals of planetary exploration, primary objectives, which are the principal basis for defining a mission, and secondary objectives, which greatly enhance the value of a mission, are presented. All specific missions will consist of both kinds of objectives.
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12) We recommend that scientific planning, mission coordination, and cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union be directed to those areas of planetary exploration where both nations have a vigorous and sustained effort and when the relative scientific strength and technological capabilities are mutually complementary in order to realize the maximum interest and scientific benefit.
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, as well as access to wavelength regions unavailable from ground-based observatories, led us last year to "strongly recommend that a significant portion of the LST schedule be made available for planetary studies and that NASA begin immediate development of instruments that are oriented toward planetary studies for the LST and for other Shuttle deliverable payloads." COMPLEX wishes to reaffirm this view and to recommend further that the scheduling of ST observations be based on the potential scientific return from each proposed observational program with due regard for planetary mission planning and that the group charged with allocating telescope time be representative of the diverse interests of potential users.
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32) We have identified selected planets as the principal targets for investigation over the next decade in order adequately to fulfill the primary scientific goals enunciated by the Board and guarantee scientific advances in these areas rather than attempt to bring forward to a uniform level of exploration all the objects in the inner solar system.
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to identify and develop the more advanced scientific instrumentation and manipulative techniques needed for the scientific objectives of future in situ planetary investigations.
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42) We do not wish to imply that global images at increasingly high resolutions are the means for continuing planetary exploration, but rather that an adequate resolution global image provides a fundamental framework for carrying out the specific analytic experiments on planetary bodies.
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59) Strategy and U.S.-USSR Cooperation It is the view of this Committee that continued scientific exploration of Venus offers an ideal arena for cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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further exploration of Mercury's magnetosphere and internal magnetic field, (2) measuring global heat flow, and (3)
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76) Minor Bodies Investigations Meteorites COMPLEX strongly recommends continued intensive studies on meteorites as a parallel effort to the study of lunar samples, to earth-based observations of the solar system, and to space missions in the study of the planetary system.
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89) EVALUATION OF PROPOSED PROGRAMS Interdisciplinary Scientist Statement COMPLEX unanimously agrees that every proposed planetary mission should follow the lead of Atmosphere Explorer and Pioneer Venus in having interdisciplinary scientists appointed to the mission Science Steering Group.
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