Outer Planets Mission Choice Is Narrowed

Ambitious plans to send probes to the outer planets are being considered by US and European space officials. One proposal envisages sending an orbiter to Saturn which would also drop a lander and a balloon on to the haze-shrouded moon Titan.The other sees two separate orbiters dispatched to investigate Jupiter and its icy moons - Europa & Ganymede.

Topics:  european   saturn   titan   jupiter    europa   ganymede   outer planets   
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