I put this together over the past week. Relative science contributions from 1992-2013 of spacecraft. Data sources Google Scholar (and ArXiV).

The pre-eminence of MODIS http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ comes as a shock. There are two of them, one each on the NASA earth observation satellites Aqua and Terra.

Darn, can’t see images, try links.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hshfet9437pc0z3/Space%20Mission%20Science1.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4zs2vbfzgnqgk8j/Space%20Mission%20Science2.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwjumjvz3luz3am/Space%20Mission%20Science3.jpg

Poor Lunokhod, has been used for lunar laser ranging recently. I wish there was a cube corner reflector om Mars.

Spacecraft Ulysses, Rosat, Space shuttle, ISS, Apollo, James Webb, Planck have a higher science content than I expected. I expected Planck to be low because it’s only just started publishing. The James Webb isn’t up yet.

ALL rovers get an unexpectedly low ranking for science content, with Sojourner the highest ranking. I also expected higher from Dawn, WISE/NEOWISE, Messenger, Kepler.

Relative science contributions of space missions:

Try images again:

Can you please figure out why the images won’t display?

mollwollfumble said:

Relative science contributions of space missions:

Try images again
y images again:

Can you please figure out why the images won’t display?

probably too many and too big.

roughbarked said:

probably too many and too big.

I reduced size before second attempt, the smallest should be < 640*480 and 57 kB. Here it is again.

Here you go, mollwollfumble.