After decades in the shadow of the other planets, Uranus should become NASA’s focus of exploration, a panel of planetary scientists reported in the field’s long-awaited “decadal survey.”
, which will retrieve rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, will cost more than $7 billion and consume one-fourth of the planetary budget in the next few years. The cost of Europa Clipper, which after launch in 2024 will swoop past the moon nearly 50 times,. And several cost-capped competitive missions have seen their budgets more than double because of the time needed to reach their remote destinations, a factor not included in their spending limits.
A mission to Enceladus—an icy moon of Saturn that spews saltwater into space—was ranked No. 2 by a survey.Although the planetary science budget has grown to accommodate big missions, the scientists who advance that work have not seen the same gains, the report stresses. The share of the budget spent over the past decade on research grants has fallen from 14% in 2010 to 7.7%.
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