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In a new report to NASA released this week, a 21-member team of scientists assess the scientific value and engineering design of a future mission to the surface of Europa. This artist’s rendering illustrates a conceptual design for a potential future mission to land a robotic probe on the surface …

Official word has come from the ESA regarding the why and wherefore of Schiaparelli’s crash landing on the Martian surface. Mission scientists were able to recover data from the lander before its untimely demise, and that data has revealed much more about the sequence of events during Schiaparelli’s last moments. …