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Van Kane
Guest blogger
Van Kane has followed planetary exploration since he opened his newspaper in 1976 and saw the first photo from the surface of Mars. The challenges of conceiving and designing planetary missions has always fascinated him. He doesn't have any formal tie to NASA or planetary exploration (although he uses data from NASA's Earth science missions in his professional work as an ecologist).
Kane writes a blog about the future of planetary exploration.
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Both would do compelling science in the mid-2030s. Otherwise the two missions could not be more different.
Van Kane brings us newly released details of the Venus Origins eXplorer (VOX), one of NASA's 12 New Frontiers mission proposals.
NASA officials are in the process of selecting the agency’s next planetary science mission from a field of 12 competitors.