Scientists Decry Cuts That Would Doom ExoMars Missions

摘要

Next week, planetary scientists building instruments for a 2016 Mars mission called Trace Gas Orbiter will update a commit tee advising NASA on its Mars exploration program. But they'll also be grilling NASA officials attending the meeting on the Obama Administration's decision last week to kill the mission, one of two joint efforts with the European Space Agency (ESA) dubbed Exo Mars {Science, 17 February, p. 783).