Planetary science is in a golden age. At the moment, NASA has robotic probes flying around Mercury and Saturn, spacecraft headed to Jupiter, Pluto and the moon, recently had close encounters with both an asteroid and a comet, and is set to launch the largest and most complex rover to Mars in less than two weeks.
But all this activity could soon come to a grinding halt.
via NASA Planetary Science Program Faces Uncertain Future | Wired Science | Wired.com.
