Solar System Planetary Science Decadal Survey and missions in the next decade, 2013–2022

In 2010, the National Research Council Space Studies Board [1] established a decadal survey committee to develop a comprehensive science, mission, and technology strategy for planetary science that updates and extends the Board´s 2003 Solar System Exploration Decadal Survey, “New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy [2].” The scope of the survey encompasses the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, and Mars), the Earth´s Moon, the giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), the moons of the giant planets, dwarf planets and small bodies, primitive bodies including comets and Kuiper Belt objects, and astrobiology.