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Fred Taylor: Exploring the Planets: Why Bother?
The American space agency, NASA, has sent many unmanned probes to explore our planetary neighbours in the Solar System. Now the European Space Agency has its own smaller, but growing, planetary exploration programme. What are we trying to do? What will we gain from it? And is it worth the trouble (and the money)?