Low Cost Atmospheric Probe Missions to the Outer Planets

From Introduction: Missions such as the atmospheric probe missions to the outer planets participate in the quest to explain the formation and evolution of the Solar System and the Earth within it. The probe missions described in this Abstract seek: understanding of the origin of the solar nebula and forces that formed Earth and the other planets; to determine the evolutionary processes that led to the diversity of Solar System bodies and the uniqueness of the Planet Earth; and to use the exotic worlds of our Solar System bodies and the uniqueness of the planet Earth; and to use the exotic worlds of our Solar System as natural science laboratories...The key to low cost atmospheric probe missions to the outer planets is low probe mass and the short time to the target planet.