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NASA and the ESA wants to send two new missions, first to Jupiter, then Saturn.
 
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are working their way through its proposed mandar ambitious missions to explore Jupiter, Saturn, and many moons are around both planets, as the two space agencies announced Wednesday.

Both missions include mandar several ships to the systems of Jupiter and Saturn to explore the gas giants and their satellites unique, such as Jupiter's moon Europe is covered by ice, and the mysterious Saturn moon Titan.
 
The first mission will be headed off to Jupiter. The mission, called Europe Jupiter System Mission, will send two spacecraft to orbit and study the planet and its large moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, with an unprecedented level of detail, they said the spokesmen for NASA.

NASA will build an orbiter, the Jupiter Europe, while the ESA will provide the other, the Jupiter Ganymede. The ship was launched in 2020 from different spaceports, with the intention of reaching Jupiter in 2026 and passing three years studying the planet and its moons.
 
"With the decision, all parties win," said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for science missions at NASA headquarters of the agency in Washington DC "Although we have chosen the mission to Jovian system is released in a first flight mission to the Saturn system is still clearly a top priority for the scientific community."

Like the proposed mission to Jupiter, Saturn will be the issue also comprises ships from NASA and European.
 
The flagship of the mission, called the Titan Saturn System Mission, including one built by NASA orbiter to study Saturn and its moons, and landed a European and a world of exploration for further research of the moon Titan is covered by clouds. The moon Enceladus, which has geisers throwing ice, is also one of the main objectives of the mission.
 
Must overcome many technical difficulties before we can launch the expedition to Saturn, and will require further study and development of technology before they can advance the mission, said spokesmen for NASA.

Meanwhile, the Cassini spacecraft, managed by NASA, ESA and the Italian Space Agency, is currently in orbit around Saturn, where he has been studying the planet and its many moons since he arrived in June 2004. The Huygens landing craft of European integration, successfully reached the surface of Titan in January 2005.

Makers seek to extend the mission of the Cassini flight 7 years longer than expected until 2017.
 
"This effort is a wonderful new challenge for exploration and will be a milestone in planetary science of the twenty-first century," said David Southwood, director of science and robotic exploration of the ESA. "From what I'm especially sure of is that cooperation across the Atlantic we have had so far and will in the future between America and Europe, NASA and ESA, and in our respective scientific communities, is absolutely fine. Let us work. "