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Article: NASA, ESA plans bold new missions to Jupiter, Saturn
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 18, 2009
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NASA, ESA plans bold new missions to Jupiter, Saturn
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- NASA and the European Space
Agency (ESA) are pushing ahead with proposals to send ambitious
missions to explore Jupiter, Saturn and the many moons that circle
both planets, the two space agencies announced Wednesday.
Both missions include sending multiple spacecraft to the Jupiter
and Saturn systems to explore the gas giant planets and their unique
satellites, such as Jupiter's ice-covered Europa and Saturn's
shrouded moon Titan.
The first mission to fly would be aimed at Jupiter. Dubbed the
Europa Jupiter System Mission, it would send two orbiting spacecraft
to study the planet and its large moons Io, ...