Deep-Space Small Bodies Are NASA’s Next Discovery Targets

Credit: Arizona State University
NASA has picked a pair of robotic missions beyond the orbit of Mars for its science-led Discovery program, narrowing a field of five finalists to fund probes that will visit Trojan asteroids in Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, and a unique main-belt asteroid that may be the surviving metallic core of...

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