"2024's Most Exciting Space Missions: Moon, Mars, and Jupiter Awaits"
The year 2024 is set to be a landmark year for space exploration with numerous missions to the moon, Mars, Jupiter, and asteroids. Highlights include the Peregrine and Nova-C landers aiming for the moon, Japan's SLIM "moon sniper," China's Chang'e 6 sample-return mission from the moon's far side, the debut of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket, the Hera mission to study the asteroid Dimorphos, Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) to Phobos, NASA's Europa Clipper to investigate Jupiter's moon, the EscaPADE mission to study Mars' atmosphere, Artemis II preparing to send astronauts near the moon, and Rocket Lab's first private mission to Venus to search for signs of life.