PLANETARY SCIENCE
- Image the varying atmospheric winds and thermal profiles on Mars
and Venus, using CO and its isotopes.
- Resolve phosphine emission in the Great Red Spot, HCN on Titan,
and volcanic emission on Io.
- Measure the properties of subsurface layers on hundreds of asteroids.
- Image the thermal emission from Pluto and Charon.
- Expand cometary research by providing unobscured images of comet
nuclei: study subsurface layers and atmospheric structure;
provide precision astrometry.
- Image impulsive events and sporadic molecular jet emission from
comets.
- Detect "proto-Jupiters" in nearby stellar systems; determine their
masses and chemical composition.