Publisher's Synopsis
The Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) has undertaken to review and revise the 1978 report Strategy for Exploration of the Inner Planets, 1977-1987. The committee has found the 1978 report to be generally still pertinent. COMPLEX therefore issues its new report in the form of an update. The committee reaffirms the basic objectives for exploration of the planets: to determine the present state of the planets and their satellites, to understand the processes active now and at the origin of the solar system, and to understand planetary evolution, including appearance of life and its relation to the chemical history of the solar system. Esposito, Larry W. and Pepin, Robert O. and Cheng, Andrew F. and Jakosky, Bruce M. and Lunine, Jonathan I. and Mcfadden, Lucy-Ann and Mckay, Christopher P. and Mckinnon, William B. and Muhleman, Duane O. and Nicholson, Philip Ames Research Center...
