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... assess NASA's Solar System Exploration Roadmap 1s and report on the degree to which the Roadmap is responsive to the scientific priorities outlined in past National Research Council (NRC) reports.
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... 8,9,10 Despite these shortcomings and other criticisms outlined in the accompanying Assessment, the program of planetary exploration described in the Roadmap has both significant potential for scientific discovery and the prospect of wide public appeal. The Space Studies Board and COMPLEX recognize that the Roadmap is an evolving document and that modifications will be made in response to changing circumstances and new developments (e.g., the recent announcement of the possible discovery of microfossils in a martian meteorite)
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... 7. Space Studies Board, National Research Council, The Search for Life's Origins: Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1990.
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... BARNES, Oregon State University PHILIP R CHRISTENSEN, Arizona State University RUSSELL DOOLITTLE, University of California, San Diego HEIDI HAMMEL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology GEORGE McGILL, University of Massachusetts HARRY McSWEEN, University of Tennessee TED ROUSH, San Francisco State University JOHN RUMMEL, Marine Biological Laboratory GERALD SCHUBERT, University of California, Los Angeles EUGENE SHOEMAKER, U.S.
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... McELROY,* University of Texas, Arlington ROBERTA BALSTAD MILLER, Consortium for International Earth Sciences Information Networks BERRIEN MOORE III, University of New Hampshire MARY JANE OSBORN, University of Connecticut Health Center SIMON OSTRACH, Case Western Reserve University CARLÉ M
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