[Simon Green]

I vote Dragonfly.

[blueunicorn6]

Comets.....lunch trucks of the universe.

[Red Badger]

Why can’t they do both?...................

[Little Pig]

As neat as both of these are, I’d really prefer that they focus on Europa.

Of course, landing on Europa does run the risk of incurring the wrath of certain large, black monoliths...

[Nateman]

ditto

[butlerweave]

I thought all Comets were ancient

[MNDude]

dragonfly

[ConservativeMind]

Comet.

[seastay]

There should no missions to land on comets until NASA comes to the reality that their dirty snowball ice rock comet carrying the primordial soup of life to earth has yet to show any evidence .. Every flyby has shown comets to be burnt dry rocks , with tails of electric plasma ... it would be waist money to send a lander on a comet outfitted to land with the purpose sample ice which wont be there.

https://youtu.be/n_ZX6LReaMw

[Lent]

Titan please! Those methane oceans, lakes, rivers etc. are fascinating.

[mikrofon]

For that amount of money, they should just go for the whole Enceladus …

[PIF]

Steve Squyres, the project’s lead investigator.

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What ever is found, the public will learn little - the usual Steve Squyres M.O.

[PIF]

Made a name error - Iapetus is the moon I was thinking about - Enceladus was an error.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Dragonfly…but only if mission control is called Wolf Den.

[Vaquero]

Enceladus. Titan next time. Examine the gyser outgassing for life in the ocean of Enceladus.

[Revel]

If you watch this robotics video from Boston Dynamics then one would wonder why they don’t use it to produce a probe. You make one of those with more legs than 4. And the ability to completely eject a leg if it become hopelessly non-functional.

I predict that if they use this Helo model that it will be a very short lived mission. It sounds really neat, but there is just too much that can go hopelessly wrong.

[Maceman]

I don’t think they should do either.

NASA needs to focus on the all important mission of helping Muslims build self esteem.

[adorno]

Comets, many scientists say, delivered water and organic molecules to a primordial Earth, perhaps igniting life here.

Comets: the interplanetary UPS and FEDEX delivery systems of our solar system.

I wonder who's the Amazon and E-bay at the other end.

[dhs12345]

Only one Saturn moon (presume that they have narrowed it down to one or two), thousands or tens of thousands of comets. Comets within range narrows it down a bit.

Which comet do you pick and tricky to hit as it flies by. Some comets are only within range every 100 years.

I vote a planet or satellite of a planet.