NASA SEEKS INPUT ON FUTURE FROM PLANETARY-SCIENCE CROWD.(Local)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: June 28, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: Jim Erickson News Science Writer

BOULDER -- If you could pick the top-ranked unmanned space missions for the coming decade, what would they be?

That's the question NASA has posed to planetary scientists, and this week Jupiter researchers who gathered in Boulder took the first crack at an answer.

``If there's any contentious debate about the priorities we come up with, we may do ourselves more harm than good,'' said planetary scientist Micha...

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