The National Academies of Science will be preparing a Planetary Science Decadal Survey for NASA later this year. The organization will thereafter recommend the space agency do in planetary science and exploration over the next decade. But a crucial part of the process is for the United States planetary science community to provide input in the form of 7-page 'white-paper' proposal documents for discussion and review.'White-Paper' proposals submitted at this date indicate the planetary science community has significant interest in missions to the gas giant planets and a few of their moons, Mars and Venus, dwarf planets, NEO asteroids, comets, and interplanetary dust. But conspicuously absent from the Decadal Survey list is the Earth's Moon.
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