Choose Your Top Three Space Destinations
Mercury : The innermost planet is home to an unusually strong magnetic field, and possible water-ice in some of its darker craters. A lander could provide details.
Venus: Today temperatures regularly top 850 F, but in the past, Venus may have been home to oceans and even possibly life.
The Moon: Our nearest neighbor likely broke off of the earth billions of years ago. New studies aim to learn more about how both formed.
Mars: Mineral deposits suggest a liquid sea might have once flowed on the surface of the red planet. Rocks from the surface could tell more of the story.
Asteroids: They are more than clumps of rock: researchers have recently found water on asteroids. They'd now like to know if complex organic molecules could also be there.
Jupiter: Jupiter's moon Europa is solid ice. Or is it? Scientists think liquid oceans might lie below the surface.
Saturn: Lakes of methane flow on Saturn's moon, Titan. Some researchers would like to send a nuclear-powered boat to have a closer look.
Uranus/Neptune: Researchers would like to study the atmospheres of these ice giants to learn more about what they're made of, and how they got there.
Beyond: Pluto was once thought to be the outermost planet, but now researchers realize it is just one of many large objects. Nobody knows how many there are, or how far out they go.
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