美国总统奥巴马在2012年2月13日宣布了总额为3.8万亿美元的2013财政年度预算案。在新的预算案中,国防预算和航空航天预算都遭到了削减,其中美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的预算被削减2.26亿美元,部分与欧洲的合作科研项目也被直接取消。削减预算对NASA的行星科学部门或多或少会产生一些影响,该部门主要负责NASA的火星探测漫游者计划,该计划的主要目的是将“勇气号”和“机遇号”两辆火星车送往火星,对火星这颗红色行星进行实地考察。该部门也负责让宇宙飞船围绕土星和月球的轨道 US President Barack Obama announced on February 13, 2012 a total of 3.8 trillion U.S. dollars of the 2013 fiscal year budget. In the new budget, the defense budget and the budget for the aerospace industry have been reduced. Among them, NASA’s budget was reduced by 226 million U.S. dollars and some cooperative research projects with Europe were also canceled. The budget cuts have more or less the impact on NASA’s planetary science department, which is primarily responsible for NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover program, whose main purpose is to have both “Courage” and “Opportunity” A rover was sent to Mars to conduct a field trip on Mars, the red planet. The unit is also responsible for keeping the spacecraft orbiting Saturn and the moon