Published 2023 | Version v1
Book section Metadata-only

From science questions to Solar System exploration

Creators

Contributors

Others:

Description

This chapter reviews the way the six key questions about planetary systems, from their origins to the way they work and their habitability, identified in Chapter 1 (Blanc et al., 2021), can be addressed by means of solar system exploration, and how one can find partial answers to these six questions by flying to the different provinces to the solar system: terrestrial planets, giant planets, small bodies, and up to its interface with the local interstellar medium. It derives from this analysis a synthetic description of the most important space observations to be performed at the different solar system objects by future planetary exploration missions. These "observation requirements" illustrate the diversity of measurement techniques to be used as well as the diversity of destinations where these observations must be made. They constitute the base for the identification of the future planetary missions we need to fly by 2061, which are described in Chapter 4.

Abstract

International audience

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
https://hal.science/hal-04794252
URN
urn:oai:HAL:hal-04794252v1

Origin repository

Origin repository
UNICA