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>>7485171

I wouldn't expect rovers to the moons of the gas giants any time soon. The fairly deep gravity wells and lack of atmosphere make it tricky to get anything substantial down there safely, and the lack of sunlight means the only viable powersource for something as energy intensive as a rover is a big hefty RTG similar to Curiosity's. The delay in communications is another issue that makes a rover out there hard to manage.

What I would like to see is more of, however is a shotgun approach to probes similar to Pioneer Venus Multiprobe. Multiple small cheap probes all made in different ways to help collect more science and reduce the risk of a single failure stopping everything.