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Nice. These missions that tell us the basics about objects in the Solar System are more useful than, say, re-visiting the moon or Mars.

Venus and Europa could use some attention. Anything underway?

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There is also NASA's upcoming mission to Titan, where they plan to fly an octocopter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(Titan_space_probe)

I'm really exited about Dragonfly, as Titan is a world not too different from ours: it gas lakes and rivers (made out of hydrocarbons, like methane), dunes and mountains

All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there.

I can't imagine aliens being so stupid to claim part of our Solar System. To me this would become a giant bullseye.

Europa could have some Europeans in it ; or extra solar aliens who can only survive in its climate so don’t care about rest of the system

What if hypothetically they had claimed it before us.

Then they’d better be prepared to defend it.

I'd presume a species capable of interstellar travel would find that fairly trivial

there is an ice war on europa

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ice-war-on-europa-warforever

Aliens who are from the solar system have the right to claim their planet for themselves, just as we did

Europa clipper launched 2 years ago arrives in 2030. DAVINCI, a Venusian probe, is slated net 2033

BepiColombo, another joint ESA-JAXA mission, will enter orbit around Mercury next month after a longer-than-expected journey. It will be the third spacecraft to visit Mercury.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BepiColombo

Apparently five Venus missions (DAVINCI, VERITAS, Envision, Venus Life Finder, and Venus Orbiter) all in the next five years or so: https://www.space.com/astronomy/venus/these-5-venus-missions...

For Europa, Europa Clipper Mission (already on the way): https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/mission-time...

... and JUICE (already on the way): https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice

There might be others, those are just what I found in a quick search.

Sample return from Venus is practically impossible with our current tech.

I suggest Terraforming Venus with microbes or extremophiles.

And to hell with the "planetary protection" treaty. We need "lebensraum"! Our females want to breed!

Venus needs men!

Kridsdale are you a man?

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