Topic: Robots in the solar system – the next decade of exploration
Speaker: Steve Murray
While both public and private programs are working hard to send humans to the moon and Mars, the work of exploring the solar system continues to be shouldered by an armada of machines. New probes – with increasingly capable onboard intelligence – will land on and roam the surfaces of planets, moons, and asteroids. This overview presents some of the major systems that will operate in the next decade and what they will accomplish.