This is the Solar System Exploration Roadmap for NASA’s Office of Space Science.

Our solar system is a place of beauty and mystery, incredible diversity, extreme environments, and continuous change. Our solar system is also a natural laboratory, on a grand scale, within which we seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe and our place within it.

"With broad input from the planetary science community, NASA’s Solar System Exploration Division and Mars Exploration Program Office have developed this roadmap to describe the foundation, the scientific goals, and the strategy for the coming years of exploration and discovery."

This roadmap draws its intellectual foundation from the recently released draft report “New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy,” prepared by the National Research Council at NASA’s request. It also draws on the deliberations and conclusions of the Solar System Exploration Subcommittee, the Mars Exploration Program Assessment Group, and the Astrobiology Working Group.

The eight science objectives outlined in this roadmap represent the most important directions for the exploration of our solar system in the coming decades. They will guide the activities of Solar System Exploration and Mars Exploration — two of NASA’s strategic themes — in fulfillment of NASA’s goals. They also provide the context through which we formulate our specific research objectives and define the science investigations and missions that address them.

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